GLM-5.3 Nears Frontier Models as Open-Source Gap Closes

Terminal Bench 3 evaluations suggest GLM-5.3 reaches frontier-level performance at roughly a third of the cost, with Chinese open-source models like Qwen already embedded in mainstream tools, signaling the open-closed model gap has largely closed.

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