Z.ai releases open-weight GLM-5.3, available on Perplexity, Databricks, Together AI

GLM-5.3, an open-weight model from Z.ai, is now available on Hugging Face and day-zero on Perplexity Computer, Databricks, Together AI, and Modular Cloud. It scores 60 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, tying for top among open-weight models, and beats GPT-5.6 and Claude Fable 5 on agentic benchmarks.
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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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