Z.ai releases open-weight GLM-5.3, topping agentic benchmarks

GLM-5.3 hit 84.5% on the CyberGym vulnerability benchmark and 60 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, tying top open-weight models. It beats GPT-5.6 and Claude Fable 5 on agentic benchmarks with a 50% gain over GLM-5.2 on Code Bench, achieved via post-training on the GLM-5.2 base.
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Z.ai Aims to Catch Anthropic, OpenAI in Coding With New AI Modelbloomberg.com
Z.ai Ships GLM-5.3 Without Retraining the Base Model: Better at Complex Coding and Long-Horizon Tasksmarktechpost.com
GLM-5.3 didn’t change the base model — where did its coding gains come from?thenewstack.io
China's Z.AI Ships GLM-5.3, Calling It the Top Open-Weight Coding Modeldecrypt.co
GLM-5.3: How Chinese labs keep stride with the frontierinterconnects.ai
GLM-5.3 is here with advanced cyber capabilities — and reportedly already found a 'serious vulnerability' in Cursorventurebeat.com
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