GLM 5.2 Is Free And Beats Claude On Most Work. So Why Can't Companies Switch?

According to AI strategist Nate B Jones, GLM 5.2—a free, open-source model that costs ninety-eight percent less than Claude—outperforms it on most everyday tasks. Yet companies still pay frontier prices. The barrier isn't model quality; it's what Jones calls the "last mile": the context systems, routing, and integrations that bind workflows to a vendor. Switching models means rebuilding your entire system. The real opportunity for builders is owning the infrastructure layer that keeps teams' context locked in.

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