GLM——From a Tsinghua Lab to a 744B Open-Source Flagship, and GLM-5.3's Cybersecurity Surge
GLM is Zhipu AI (Z.ai)'s open LLM family from Tsinghua's KEG Lab. GLM-5.3 (2026/08) lifts coding +50% over the previous generation, hits 84.5% on CyberGym ahead of Anthropic Mythos 5 and OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, and scores 60 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index tied with Kimi K3 for open-source #1. The only frontier open model trained entirely on Huawei Ascend.