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GLM-5.3

by Ashik Nesin Ashik Nesin

Z.ai team has released GLM-5.3 which performs as good as proprietary models like Fable, GPT-5.6 Sol, etc

And it is built on top of GLM-5.2

Scaling post-training is all we did for GLM-5.3

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What’s new?

GLM-5.3 supports three thinking effort levels: low, high, and max. Disabling thinking is no longer supported by GLM-5.3.

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It’s available on GLM Coding Plan & ZCode as well.

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