Perplexity Fine-Tuned a Chinese AI Model to Match Claude Opus 4.8 at One-Third the Cost

In brief Perplexity released a research preview of a post-trained GLM 5.2 version, built to act as an orchestrator inside its Computer harness and escalate to Claude Opus 4.8 only when needed. The system costs one-third the price of Opus 4.8 across benchmarks. It’s Perplexity’s second Chinese open-source fine-tune in 18 months—the first being R1-1776,...