Released on Aug 18, 2026
Z.ai announced this model on 2026-08-18.
- Hosting route
- First-party API
- Affected scope
- Not stated in the notice
- Announced
- Aug 18, 2026
- First seen by ModelClock
- Oct 21, 2026
What the provider published
docs.z.ai ↗2026-08-18 GLM-5.3
Stronger Coding Capabilities: GLM-5.3 delivers a significant improvement in coding capabilities, achieving a 50% gain over GLM-5.2 on Z.ai Code Bench and reaching state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance among open-source models on public benchmarks, including Terminal Bench 3.0.
Emergent Cybersecurity Capabilities: GLM-5.3 matches Mythos 5 in white-box code review and vulnerability discovery. In collaboration with multiple cybersecurity teams, it has been tested on real-world targets and has identified a total of 2,436 vulnerabilities, including 1,097 medium- and high-severity vulnerabilities.Learn more in our documentation .*
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