GLM-5.2 Cuts Prices by 20%: Has the 'Compute Tax' on RL Finally Dropped?

At yesterday's lab group meeting, my junior colleague complained that running RLHF experiments with GLM-5.2 was burning through 2,000 yuan a day. I quietly opened IT Home and saw this news—Alibaba Cloud Bailian is cutting the price of GLM-5.2 Fast mode by 20%, effective July 15. My first reaction wasn't to hit 'like', but to open the calculator: how many more PPO iterations can our lab's monthly budget afford now?