Z.ai releases GLM-5.3 open-weight model

Z.ai released GLM-5.3, an open-weight model built on the GLM-5.2 base with scaled post-training, available on Hugging Face and via partners like Databricks and Together AI. It scores 84.5% on CyberGym and 60 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, beating proprietary models on agentic benchmarks.
How this story unfolded
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- Aug 14
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
- Aug 15
- Aug 16
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- Aug 18
The Powerful Chinese Model Experts Warned About—and Waited for—Is Herewired.com
OpenAI’s Greg Brockman: Z.ai’s GLM-5.3 likely to “significantly accelerate the threat landscape”thenewstack.io
GLM 5.3 now available on AI Gatewayvercel.com
GLM-5.3 achieves 60 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, on par with Kimi K3 and up 7...
- Aug 19
GLM-5.3 hits the API at $1.4/$4.4 per million tokensventurebeat.com
An industrial-scale distillation of models, or subtle benchmaxxing: What developers really think of GLM-5.3thenewstack.io
GLM-5.3 achieves 60 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, on par with Kimi K3 and up 7 points from GLM-5.2. Once the weights are released it will be tied as the leading open weights model
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