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Re:GLM-5.2 is the step change for open agents by SyneRyder on Thursday June 25, 2026 @06:24AM (#48671425)
> There is probably a market for Deepseek/GLM served from non CCP available servers. I might even look into how hard that would be to setup here.

Please do. There is definitely a market for Deepseek / GLM hosted from non-China servers, there's over 20 providers for GLM 5.2 on OpenRouter alone... and they're all either Singapore (home of Z.AI / GLM), China, or US. There is nothing yet listed on OpenRouter from Europe (Inceptron still only has GLM 5.1). And of course, there is absolutely nothing hosted in Australia.

We're in a particularly dire situation in Australia. We're about to be cut off from Claude Fable and premium American models. The European Mistral models are garbage, at least in comparison to US models. Our only hope is going to be Chinese models (GLM 5.2 is good), and we're not even hosting them in Australia.

By the way, if you haven't tried an Anthropic model, it's worth spending at least $20 one month to give Opus 4.8 a try. I only got one night of access to Fable before I was cut off, but one single evening of Fable provided plans that I've been working through for about a week afterwards with Opus 4.8... and that was only Fable, not even Mythos. That's the kind of intelligence lead Australia is about to be cut off from.

(And kudos on the Containers For Change, that's something I do as well - mostly as an exercise incentive to walk to the local recycling machine, because the money certainly doesn't compensate for the time spent on the recycling.)

Re:GLM-5.2 is the step change for open agents by Sanzig on Thursday June 25, 2026 @08:02AM (#48672152)
Same issue in Canada - domestic inference capability for the open models is woefully behind.
Re:GLM-5.2 is the step change for open agents by trollbridge on Thursday June 25, 2026 @08:54AM (#48672635)
Canada has fewer excuses, given sparsely populated places that are cold with nearly infinite water and extremely cheap electricity.
Re:GLM-5.2 is the step change for open agents by Sanzig on Thursday June 25, 2026 @09:51AM (#48673406)
Yep, agreed. Main issue in Canada is a notoriously slow and stingy investment ecosystem. Resource-wise we're incredibly well positioned.
Re:GLM-5.2 is the step change for open agents by forshaper on Thursday June 25, 2026 @10:25AM (#48673917)
Would you happen to know why there are so many Canadian investments in American telecom?
Re:GLM-5.2 is the step change for open agents by trollbridge on Saturday June 27, 2026 @09:05AM (#48697912)
Canadian telecom is very obstructionist to outside investment and basically structured around rent seeking for exisiting telecoms.

American telecom lets basically anyone come here and spend money.

Re:GLM-5.2 is the step change for open agents by trollbridge on Friday June 26, 2026 @10:09AM (#48686822)
Canadian firms can easily access U.S. capital markets. So the question remains of why we aren’t building all kinds of data centers out in the tundra next to giant hydro plants.
Re:GLM-5.2 is the step change for open agents by trollbridge on Thursday June 25, 2026 @08:53AM (#48672627)
Hosting in Australia is not feasible at Australian electricity prices.

(Speaking as a not-so-proud Australian.)

Re:GLM-5.2 is the step change for open agents by Mossy9 on Thursday June 25, 2026 @09:17AM (#48672892)
Cortecs (EU router) lists GLM 5.2 from Tensorix and Nebius https://cortecs.ai/detailedServerlessView/glm-5.2

So two European providers at least

Re:GLM-5.2 is the step change for open agents by SyneRyder on Saturday June 27, 2026 @05:42PM (#48702045)
Thank you, I haven't heard of Cortecs before. Might see if I can integrate this into my harness, or at least wire up Tensorix.

Also, I don't know how accurate that tokens/per/second measure for GLM 5.2 is, but if that is even remotely true, then I won't complain about the mild markup Tensorix have for GLM ;) Thank you for the heads-up!