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GLM-5.3 Released by Zhipu: 740 Billion Parameters Unchanged, Performance Boosted 50% via Post-Training Programming Ability Approaches
Zhipu officially launched GLM-5.3 on August 14, maintaining the 74-billion parameter count of its predecessor, GLM-5.2, while skipping the rumored trillion-parameter upgrade, which may be saved for GLM-5.5. Through advanced post-training techniques, Zhipu boosted GLM-5.3’s performance by 50% over the previous generation, securing top rankings among current open-source models across multiple mainstream benchmarks. Its coding and agent capabilities rival Claude Opus 4.8, surpassing other domestic models in programming efficiency.
Key benchmark improvements highlight the model’s enhanced capabilities. On Terminal-Bench 3.0, which assesses complex task completion in real terminal environments, the score surged from 4.6 to 28.3. In DeepSWE v1.1, focusing on long-horizon software engineering and continuous code modification, performance rose from 46.2 to 66.9. On Agents’ Last Exam, covering diverse professional scenarios with an emphasis on cross-tool collaboration and long-horizon tasks, the score increased from 23.8 to 28.5. Additionally, GLM-5.3 achieved 1,769 points in GDPval-AA v2, which spans 44 professions and evaluates high-value knowledge work, demonstrating strong professional task execution grounded in programming skills. Overall, the model shows significant advancements in complex software engineering, terminal operations, and broader real-world agent tasks.

The most compelling evidence comes from Zhipu’s proprietary Z.ai Code Bench, an evaluation suite that places the model in a real local development environment to execute end-to-end tasks under various reasoning modes, closely simulating the experience of using a Coding Agent. Results indicate that GLM-5.3 achieves an optimal balance between effectiveness and token efficiency: in High mode, it reached a 31.4% accuracy rate, outperforming Claude Opus 4.8’s maximum mode of 29.5%, while using only about 50,000 tokens per task on average, compared to Opus 4.8’s 120,000 tokens. This demonstrates that GLM-5.3 can complete identical tasks with a significantly shorter execution path.

Regarding product availability, GLM-5.3 is now accessible on Zhipu’s official coding tool, ZCode, and productivity tool, AutoClaw, and is open to all GLM Coding Plan users and subscribers. Third-party coding platforms, including TraeWork, TraeCode, Kousi, WorkBuddy, CodeBuddy, Qoder, QwenWork, CatPaw, JoyCode, and OpenCode, have also granted early access. The API will launch soon, with full model weights open-sourced within two weeks following necessary security enhancements. Zhipu’s strategy focuses on limiting the model’s potential attack capabilities while preserving its defensive value. At 13:00 today, quotas for all GLM Coding Plan users were reset, and usage statistics in the backend now reflect restored limits for everyone.
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Zhipu officially launched GLM-5.3 on August 14, maintaining the 74-billion parameter count of its predecessor, GLM-5.2, while skipping the rumored trillion-parameter upgrade, which may be saved for GLM-5.5. Through advanced post-training techniques, Zhipu boosted GLM-5.3’s performance by 50% over the previous generation, securing top rankings among current open-source models across multiple mainstream benchmarks. Its coding and agent capabilities rival Claude Opus 4.8, surpassing other domestic models in programming efficiency.
Key benchmark improvements highlight the model’s enhanced capabilities. On Terminal-Bench 3.0, which assesses complex task completion in real terminal environments, the score surged from 4.6 to 28.3. In DeepSWE v1.1, focusing on long-horizon software engineering and continuous code modification, performance rose from 46.2 to 66.9. On Agents’ Last Exam, covering diverse professional scenarios with an emphasis on cross-tool collaboration and long-horizon tasks, the score increased from 23.8 to 28.5. Additionally, GLM-5.3 achieved 1,769 points in GDPval-AA v2, which spans 44 professions and evaluates high-value knowledge work, demonstrating strong professional task execution grounded in programming skills. Overall, the model shows significant advancements in complex software engineering, terminal operations, and broader real-world agent tasks.

The most compelling evidence comes from Zhipu’s proprietary Z.ai Code Bench, an evaluation suite that places the model in a real local development environment to execute end-to-end tasks under various reasoning modes, closely simulating the experience of using a Coding Agent. Results indicate that GLM-5.3 achieves an optimal balance between effectiveness and token efficiency: in High mode, it reached a 31.4% accuracy rate, outperforming Claude Opus 4.8’s maximum mode of 29.5%, while using only about 50,000 tokens per task on average, compared to Opus 4.8’s 120,000 tokens. This demonstrates that GLM-5.3 can complete identical tasks with a significantly shorter execution path.

Regarding product availability, GLM-5.3 is now accessible on Zhipu’s official coding tool, ZCode, and productivity tool, AutoClaw, and is open to all GLM Coding Plan users and subscribers. Third-party coding platforms, including TraeWork, TraeCode, Kousi, WorkBuddy, CodeBuddy, Qoder, QwenWork, CatPaw, JoyCode, and OpenCode, have also granted early access. The API will launch soon, with full model weights open-sourced within two weeks following necessary security enhancements. Zhipu’s strategy focuses on limiting the model’s potential attack capabilities while preserving its defensive value. At 13:00 today, quotas for all GLM Coding Plan users were reset, and usage statistics in the backend now reflect restored limits for everyone.
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