Zhipu's GLM-5.3-Flash inference stack built by an agent on 100,000 Chinese accelerators

emmanuelvivier · x · 2026-09-18

Z.ai revealed that the inference stack for GLM-5.3-Flash was built by an agent running on roughly 100,000 Chinese domestic accelerators, combining large-scale domestic compute with automated agent engineering.

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