GLM-5.3 is now open-weight
What changed
GLM-5.3 uses the same base model as GLM-5.2 — every gain comes from post-training. It also achieve open-source SOTA on public benchmarks including Terminal Bench 3.0 and Agents' Last Exam. - NL2Repo: We evaluated NL2Repo with temperature=1.0 ,top_p=1.0 , andmax_new_tokens=64k under 1M context.
Why it matters
A concrete addition to Practical AI: Tools, Models & Frameworks: it changes what's available to builders today rather than being general commentary.
How it compares
Related prior coverage to compare against:
- DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
- Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models
- Running a 28.9M parameter LLM on an $8 microcontroller
Sources
- GLM-5.3 is now open-weight (hn-frontpage)primary