Z.ai releases open-weight GLM-5.3, topping agentic benchmarks
Z.ai released GLM-5.3 as open weights on Hugging Face, scoring 84.5% on CyberGym and 60 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. It uses the GLM-5.2 base with extended post-training, beating GPT-5.6 and Claude Fable 5 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
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The Powerful Chinese Model Experts Warned About—and Waited for—Is Herewired.com
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 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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