GLM-5.3 Released: 50% Coding Gain, Emergent Cyber Capabilities

jacek2023 · reddit · 2026-08-28

Based on the same model as GLM-5.2, GLM-5.3 gains come entirely from post-training. It achieves a 50% improvement on the internal Z.ai Code Bench and open-source SOTA on public benchmarks like Terminal Bench 3.0. Unexpectedly, scaling post-training led to emergent cyber capabilities, with the model doubling GLM-5.2's performance on exploitation benchmarks.

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