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AI Quick Tips 359: Perplexity adds GLM-5.2

Written by Damien Griffin | Jul 30, 2026, 5:45:01 PM

One of the benefits of using Perplexity is that they have models from multiple companies (i.e., OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, etc.)

They have expanded their model offerings with Z,ai’s GLM-5.2. This is an open-source model with impressive performance.

Here are some of it stats

  • One million token context window
  • Multiple thinking/reasoning levels
  • Strong coding capabilities
  • MIT license
  • ~750B parameters

 

To access the model with Perplexity -

  1. Go to www.perplexity.ai
  2. Log in (or create an account)
  3. Expand the model selector in the bottom right of the prompting area
  4. Choose GLM 5.2

Happy prompting!