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GLM 5.2 is great ... but [Short]

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  • Revisits the GLM 5.2 vs Claude/OpenAI question: despite GLM 5.2 being free and highly capable, major enterprise spend on Claude and OpenAI continues to grow rather than being disrupted.
  • Names this as a puzzle worth stating explicitly: a genuinely competitive, zero-cost model hasn’t dented incumbent revenue growth among high-volume users.
  • Connects to the recurring context-lock-in thesis from the 2026-06-28 “GLM-5.2” episode — capability/price parity doesn’t overcome accumulated workflow and context switching costs.
  • Practical takeaway: don’t expect free or cheap frontier-adjacent models to win enterprise share on capability or price alone; context lock-in remains the dominant switching-cost variable.