GLM-5: Zhipu AI Tops Chatbot Arena Without Nvidia
Zhipu AI’s GLM-5 — a 744B MoE model trained entirely on Huawei Ascend chips — claimed the #1 spot on Chatbot Arena (ELO 1451) in February 2026. It scores 77.8% on SWE-bench Verified under an MIT license at a fraction of proprietary model prices. Here’s what the numbers actually say, and where the caveats are.