Alex Dudov
⬤ A new player just crashed the generative AI party. GLM-5 went live on the Yupp platform and immediately started racking up votes—around 6,000 of them—landing it at #10 among text models when you turn on the speed control filter. Interestingly, the model was already showing up in leaderboard data before anyone made it official, meaning it was being tested under the radar.
⬤ Looking at the leaderboard chart, GLM-5 is now sitting next to the big names: GPT-5 variants, Gemini models, Claude releases, and Nova experimental chat systems. The top dogs are scoring above 1400, while GLM-5 is hanging around the 1300 mark. That's not a bad spot—it's clearly playing in the competitive tier, not just some experimental side project.
⬤ What makes preference leaderboards interesting is they're based on what real people actually choose, not some artificial benchmark test. Those ~6K votes mean the model got put through its paces across all kinds of real prompts before the public even knew it existed. And honestly, the sheer number of models fighting for position right now shows how crowded and fragmented the AI space has become. Everyone's competing on speed, usability, and how good the responses actually are.
⬤ GLM-5's arrival adds another solid option to the production-grade language model lineup and shows how fast companies are pushing out new releases. The game has changed—winning isn't just about topping one benchmark anymore. It's about what users actually prefer when they're getting work done.
Alex Dudov
