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Z.ai Launches GLM-5.3 With Frontier Coding and a Cyber Capability That Outgrew Its Training

Z.ai released GLM-5.3 on August 14, 2026, an update the company says keeps the same base model as GLM-5.2 and derives every capability gain from scaled-up post-training. The headline results are in coding, where Z.ai reports the model is the strongest open-weights system it has measured, and in cybersecurity, where the company says capability grew faster than it anticipated as training scaled. The weights are not yet public: Z.ai says it will release them in about two weeks, after safety… [...]

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GLM-5.3 is here with advanced cyber capabilities — and reportedly already found a 'serious vulnerability' in Cursor

Chinese AI startup Z.ai, known internationally for its growing lineup of powerful, largely open source GLM series of language models, today released GLM-5.3 with substantial gains in long-horizon codi [...]

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z.ai debuts faster, cheaper GLM-5 Turbo model for agents and 'claws' — but it's not open-source

Chinese AI startup Z.ai, known for its powerful, open source GLM family of large language models (LLMs), has introduced GLM-5-Turbo, a new, proprietary variant of its open source GLM-5 model aimed at [...]

Match Score: 334.19

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Z.ai debuts open source GLM-4.6V, a native tool-calling vision model for multimodal reasoning

Chinese AI startup Zhipu AI aka Z.ai has released its GLM-4.6V series, a new generation of open-source vision-language models (VLMs) optimized for multimodal reasoning, frontend automation, and high-e [...]

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AI joins the 8-hour work day as GLM ships 5.1 open source LLM, beating Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.4 on SWE-Bench Pro

Is China picking back up the open source AI baton? Z.ai, also known as Zhupai AI, a Chinese AI startup best known for its powerful, open source GLM family of models, has unveiled GLM-5.1 today under a [...]

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Z.ai launches ZCode to challenge Cursor, Claude Code and GitHub Copilot in AI coding

Z.ai, the Beijing-based artificial intelligence lab formerly known as Zhipu AI, on Wednesday officially launched ZCode, a free desktop application it describes as an "Agentic Development Environm [...]

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Z.ai's open source GLM-Image beats Google's Nano Banana Pro at complex text rendering, but not aesthetics

The two big stories of AI in 2026 so far have been the incredible rise in usage and praise for Anthropic's Claude Code and a similar huge boost in user adoption for Google's Gemini 3 AI mode [...]

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Z.ai’s open-weights GLM-5.2 beats GPT-5.5 on multiple long-horizon coding benchmarks for 1/6th the cost

Today, Chinese AI startup Z.ai (formerly Zhipu AI) announced the immediate release of GLM-5.2, a 753-billion parameter open-weights large language model (LLM) engineered specifically to dominate " [...]

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z.ai's open source GLM-5 achieves record low hallucination rate and leverages new RL 'slime' technique

Chinese AI startup Zhupai aka z.ai is back this week with an eye-popping new frontier large language model: GLM-5.The latest in z.ai's ongoing and continually impressive GLM series, it retains an [...]

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OpenAI launches GPT-5.6-Cyber with reduced refusals, 95% completion on advanced cybersecurity tasks

Earlier today, OpenAI launched GPT-5.6-Cyber, a specialized model designed to perform advanced vulnerability research and exploit development for approved defenders — including categories of work th [...]

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