Alibaba, Zhipu and DeepSeek Unveil New Models on the Same Day
Alibaba open-sourced Qwen3.8-27B weights with local multimodal support, Zhipu released GLM-5.3 with breakthrough coding and cyber-defense capabilities, and DeepSeek launched V4-Pro with upgraded agent abilities — all on the same day.
2026-08-15 ~ 2026-08-15 · 3 related posts
- Episode 1: Zhipu GLM-5.3 Spotted in Codebase, Post-Training Targets K3 and GPT-5.6(2026-08-03, 5 posts)
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- Episode 4: Alibaba, Zhipu and DeepSeek Unveil New Models on the Same Day(2026-08-15, 3 posts)
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- Episode 12: Zai Releases GLM-5.3 Weights with Tiered Access Citing Cybersecurity Capabilities(2026-08-27, 11 posts)
- Episode 13: GLM-5.3 Flash Benchmarks: Near-Frontier Quality at a Fraction of the Cost(2026-08-27, 12 posts)
- Episode 14: Z.ai Releases Open-Weight GLM-5.3 with Day-One Adoption Across Platforms(2026-08-29, 19 posts)
- Episode 15: Zhipu's GLM-5.3 Launches Exclusively on Baseten with Big Coding Gains(2026-09-05, 2 posts)
- Alibaba, Zhipu, DeepSeek Release New Models: Qwen3.8, GLM-5.3, V4-Pro — johnseach · 2026-08-15
- Three major AI releases: Qwen3.8-27B, GLM-5.3, DeepSeek V4-Pro — johnseach · 2026-08-15
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