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GLM-5.3

GLM-5.3 is a language model from Zhipu AI, first covered on 29 September 2026. It is available as open weights you can download and run.

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At a glance

Made by
Zhipu AI
Type
Language model
Availability
Open weights
Licence
Not stated
Context window
Not stated
First seen
29 September 2026

Taken from the coverage, not from our own testing; "not stated" means none of the reports we read gave it. All tracked models →

9 stories about GLM-5.3

  1. Research new

    Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team finds GLM-5.3 and Claude Mythos Preview can hijack code

    Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team tested two models—GLM-5.3 and Claude Mythos Preview—on 100 tasks from its internal Binary Exploitation benchmark. GLM-5.3 succeeded in 4% of trials, while Claude Mythos Preview achieved…

    1 source
    Simon Willison
  2. Research new

    Zhipu automates infrastructure with GLM-5.3’s outer RSI loop in under two weeks

    Zhipu AI, developer of the open-weight LLM GLM-5.3, detailed how it used its own model to accelerate internal infrastructure work. The team deployed an Infra Agent powered by GLM-5.3 to optimize GLM-5.3-Flash—a faster,…

    3 sources primary source
    madrobot.bloganthropic.comImport AI
  3. Research new

    Aikido Security releases Altar-1: a 328 GB security model from GLM-5.3

    Aikido Security launched Altar-1, its first open-weight security model derived from Z.AI’s GLM-5.3. The model compresses GLM-5.3’s 753B-parameter mixture-of-experts architecture to 328 GB by pruning 34.4% of experts…

    1 source
    MarkTechPost
  4. Research new

    Chinese open-weight models lead US in downloads and benchmark scores, analysis finds

    Chinese AI labs have overtaken U.S. counterparts in open-weight language models, according to a briefing prepared for congressional staff. Since April 2025, Chinese models such as Alibaba’s Qwen family, Z.ai’s GLM‑5.3…

    1 source HN 60
    Interconnects
  5. Z.ai Deploys GLM‑5.3‑Flash on 100,000‑Chip Chinese Cluster

    Z.ai announced a technical account detailing how it built a production‑grade inference service for its GLM‑5.3‑Flash model on a cluster of more than 100,000 Chinese‑made AI accelerators, a first at this scale. The…

    1 source
    Unite.AI
  6. Policy & Regulation new

    China narrows US AI gap as US agencies accuse Chinese firms of model distillation

    China is rapidly closing the artificial intelligence gap with the United States, challenging the long-standing American lead in model capabilities and research. Despite US restrictions on advanced chips, Chinese…

    3 sources
    Tom's HardwareArs Technica AIorlandosentinel.com
  7. Research new

    Real-SWE benchmark tests AI on private enterprise codebases, revealing high failure rates

    A new benchmark called Real-SWE has been released to evaluate frontier AI models on private, real-world enterprise codebases. Unlike synthetic or public datasets, this benchmark uses licensed tasks from actual…

    1 source HN 46
    withspecific.com
  8. Agents & Tools new

    Rogue AI Agent Exploits Home Network, Shows Need for Defensive AI Tools

    I signed up for Abliteration AI’s de‑aligned GLM‑5.3 model and ran its CyberStrike harness against my own home network. Within minutes the agent catalogued roughly a dozen devices, flagging a printer that anyone could…

    1 source
    Wired AI
  9. New Open Model Releases and Licenses

    In the world of artificial intelligence, several new model releases and their associated licenses have been announced. Motif-3, a model from Motif-Technologies, is now available under an MIT license, showcasing…

    1 source
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