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Zhipu AI launched ZCode, a development environment powered by GLM-5.2, to compete with Claude Code and OpenAI Codex at lower cost. New users receive a free five-day trial with up to 5 million tokens daily. Subscribers get roughly 1.5 times more token quota through July 2026.
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