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For Z.ai's GLM-5.3, post-training is all you need

Z.ai released GLM-5.3 on Friday, a post-training upgrade to its GLM-5.2 model, which the company says is much better at complex coding and long-horizon tasks. The release follows Hugging Face's use of GLM-5.2 after OpenAI's attack on its infrastructure, when restrictions on cybersecurity AI prevented the use of Anthropic's Claude models.

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For Z.ai's GLM-5.3, post-training is all you need
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Z.ai's GLM-5.2 model was the tool Hugging Face turned to in the wake of OpenAI's attack on its infrastructure when it was unable to use Anthropic's newest Claude models, thanks to government-imposed restrictions on cybersecurity AI. On Friday Z.ai released GLM-5.3, which it described as basically a souped-up version of 5.2.

"Scaling post-training is all we did for GLM-5.3," the company said in a blog post, explaining that the heavy lifting that catapulted GLM-5.2 into the enterprise spotlight allowed the company to simply (well, it's not simple) fine tune the base model with additional data to create the new one. "Compared with GLM-5.2, it is much better at complex coding and long-horizon tasks," the company said.

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