Z.ai announced GLM-5.3, a new model that achieves frontier performance on agentic coding benchmarks by extending the post-training of its GLM-5.2 base model. The ~750B parameter model currently surpasses Kimi K3 and matches or exceeds Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6-Sol on various benchmarks.
- Z.ai states that "scaling post-training is all we did" for this release, utilizing more environments, diverse tasks, and compute.
- The model has approximately 750B parameters, which is a third of the size of Kimi K3.
- GLM-5.3 is available in the coding plan, with API access coming soon and open weights on Hugging Face in two weeks.
The release highlights Z.ai's strength in post-training optimization and rapid iteration cycles compared to American competitors.