Rumor: Zhipu's GLM-5.5 lands this month as a trillion-parameter open model
A JPMorgan research note expects Chinese lab Zhipu to ship GLM-5.5 in August, potentially crossing 1 trillion parameters — up from GLM-5.2's 744 billion. Community leaks add claims of open weights, a 1-million-token context window and a focus on long-running coding agents. None of this is confirmed: Zhipu has announced nothing, and the specs circulate only in analyst notes and forums. This is an unverified rumor.
Why it mattersZhipu's GLM-5.2 is already among the strongest open models. If the rumor holds, August brings yet another frontier-scale open release from China — right as Washington's new review framework pointedly leaves open models outside its scope.
⚠ Unverified rumor — treat with caution
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