Databricks makes Chinese open-source model GLM 5.2 its default coding engine after it matched Opus at lower cost

Databricks has selected the Chinese open-source model GLM 5.2 as its default engine for internal coding tasks after finding it performed on par with Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus. Internal testing showed that GLM 5.2 delivered comparable coding results while reducing operational costs by approximately 34 percent. This shift signals a move toward using highly efficient, open-weight models for enterprise-level development work, challenging the previous dominance of expensive, proprietary frontier models.