Pony Alpha 2 optimized for OpenClaw agentic workflows

GLM-5's mystery arc — appearing anonymously on OpenRouter before resolving as Zhipu AI's new open-weights SOTA — makes Pony Alpha 2's agent-optimized follow-up worth watching closely.

• –Cuts execution steps by ~40% through optimized task decomposition, a real win for multi-step agent chains
• –Preserved reasoning tokens during tool batching means the model doesn't lose its chain-of-thought mid-workflow
• –AutoClaw bundles it in a free one-click installer (Windows/macOS) with 50+ pre-built skills, removing setup friction entirely
• –Open-weights release is on the roadmap — if it ships MIT-licensed like GLM-5, it could become a go-to base for agent fine-tunes
• –Supports model hot-swapping to DeepSeek, Kimi, and other LLMs, so adoption isn't a lock-in play