GLM-5.3 ships from Z.ai; devs debate 'benchmaxxing' vs distillation
Z.ai released GLM-5.3 on Friday, built on GLM-5.2's codebase, with every gain attributed to post-training. The company claims big improvements in complex coding and long-horizon tasks, but developers are split between calling it industrial-scale model distillation and 'subtle benchmaxxing.'
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