GLM-5.2 leads July's open-weight LLMs as Inkling tops US models

Kimi K3 and Qwen3.8 remain outside the ranking because their downloadable weights were not available by July 20th.

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Open-weight adoption depends on downloadable checkpoints and licenses, not launch claims. GLM-5.2 leads today, while Inkling gives US companies their strongest domestic option.

GLM-5.2 leads July's open-weight LLMs as Inkling tops US models — Kimi K3 and Qwen3.8 remain outside the ranking because their downloadable weights were not available by July 20th.

Z.ai's GLM-5.2 holds the lead among downloadable open-weight language models as of July 20th, scoring 51 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and opening a seven-point gap over its nearest tested rivals. The 753-billion-parameter model is available under the MIT license, activates roughly 40 billion parameters per token and supports a 1-million-token context window.…

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