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GLM-5.3

Release announcedReleased on Aug 18, 2026

Z.ai released GLM-5.3 on Aug 18, 2026. Source: docs.z.ai · Last checked Oct 23, 2026

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Released on Aug 18, 2026

Z.ai announced this model on 2026-08-18.

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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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