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GLM 5.3 weights released publicly

Z.ai has released the weights for GLM 5.3, making the model publicly available. The release was announced on Hugging Face.

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Zhipu AI releases GLM-5.3 open-weights model

GLM-5.3, built on the GLM-5.2 base, shows a 50% improvement over GLM-5.2 on in-house coding benchmarks, making it the most capable open-weights model for coding.

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GLM-5.3 hits API at $1.4/$4.4 per million tokens

Z.ai's GLM-5.3 scores 60 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, up 7 points from GLM-5.2 and level with Kimi K3. It keeps GLM-5.2's 1M-token context and 128K max output while producing fewer output tokens at the same effort level.

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Z.ai's GLM-5.3 tops open-weight models, draws cyber warnings

GLM-5.3 scores 60 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, tying Kimi K3 and up 7 points from GLM-5.2, and hits 84.5% on the CyberGym vulnerability benchmark. It uses the same base model as GLM-5.2, with gains from post-training; weights release two weeks after launch.