18 Sep🚨 Z.ai launches GLM 5.3 FlashX at up to 200 tokens/s It is essentially the same 320B GLM 5.3 Flash, but with a heavily optimized inference stack and up to 5× faster generation. Runs on 100,000+ Chinese AI chips. API costs 2.5× more than Flash.Z.aiGLM
26 Aug🚨 GLM 5.3 FLASH IS OUT The first natively multimodal model in the GLM 5 series. 320B total parameters, with just 18B active. It beats GLM 5.2 across most benchmarks and gets close to Claude Opus 4.8 on coding and agentic tasks, while costing around 10x less. And yes, ox alpha…ClaudeZ.aiGLM
26 Aug🚨 CONFIRMED: OX ALPHA IS A NEW GLM MODEL Bloomberg got confirmation directly from Z.AI that Ox Alpha is a new iteration of the GLM series. Z.AI also said the name was inspired by the Chinese film Niu Lai, or Ox Comes. Model weights will be released tonight.Z.aiGLM
14 Aug⚡️ Z.ai released GLM 5.3 The new model is noticeably stronger than GLM 5.2 in coding, agents, and cybersecurity. Across benchmarks, GLM 5.3 is already very close to GPT 5.6 Sol. API pricing isn’t public yet, but I’m pretty sure it’ll be at least 2 to 3x cheaper than Sol. Open…GPT-5.6 SolZ.aiGLM