GLM 5.3 "Flash" spotted internally; observers doubt it's a small model
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-08-21
A user claims Zhipu's GLM 5.3 "Flash" has been spotted internally. teortaxesTex argues it may not actually be a smaller Flash-tier model: first, it's slow for a Flash model (though with the 100T compute commitment it could be run at high batch size); second, its knowledge seems on par with 5.3 proper.
He speculates that if it's under 740B parameters, Zhipu surpasses DeepSeek (and Kimi) by a margin that's "not even funny." (Unverified internal sighting and speculation.)
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