ThursdAI Recap: GLM 5.3 and Qwen 27B Drop, OpenAI Pauses RL for Safety
altryne · x · 2026-08-28
The latest ThursdAI podcast covers the week in AI: Z.ai released GLM 5.3 (API-only for now) and the tiny Qwen 3.89 27B; OpenAI announced pausing RL efforts after the scary AI swarms hacking incident, dedicating up to 20% of compute to reviewing agent thinking processes; Stripe reportedly buying OpenRouter for $8B. The episode also discusses 4 Flash models (Omni 1.1 Flash, Qwen next, GLM 5.3 Flash), a video generated in under 10 seconds with fal's new H3 Max, plus interviews with Andy Masley on DC debates and Kwindla on phone LLMs.
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