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▶ 4:32 · $ZHIPU · $MOONSHOT-AI · GLM 5.2 tops Clay evals at fraction of OpenAI cost, accelerating open-weight adoption
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Claude Opus 5 vs ChatGPT 5.6

2026-07-27 · 4 company · 3 thematic
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jeff barr

Leads AI strategy and model evaluation at Clay, a company building AI-powered go-to-market engineering tools. Oversees internal evals, model selection, and migration to open-weight models for production workloads.

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“we use GLM 5.2 and KamiKaze 2.6 pretty extensively at Clay now... for GLM 5.2 sometimes it's at the top of our e-vals, uh but it's truly a fraction of the cost of even, you know, the cheaper OpenAI models.”
—jeff barr
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