Open-weight cyber capabilities just 6–7 months behind frontier, GLM-5.3 beats GPT-5.4

Jsevillamol · x · 2026-10-17

Epoch AI's Cyber ECI benchmark finds open-weight cyber capabilities trail the closed frontier by only about 6–7 months. Zai's GLM-5.3 scores 160, the highest among open-weight models and above OpenAI's GPT-5.4 released in March. Commenter Jsevillamol adds they've seen further evidence of GLM 5.3's surprisingly strong cyber performance, and echoes Anthropic's warning that Mythos-level open models may arrive by year-end.

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