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GLM-5.3: How Chinese labs keep stride with the frontier
Z.ai has a time-to-release of likely days, rather than months as with OpenAI or Anthropic. While OpenAI and Anthropic likely have far better internal models, the companies tend to take months to release their models to the public. Z.ai probably cares a little more about public benchmarks than its US counterparts, but it is not benchmaxxing to the point where it is too obvious with GLM-5.3. The RL industry is taking off in China, very much driven by US data companies selling to Chinese model labs.
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