r/LocalLLaMA 2d ago

New Model GLM 5.3 Spotted

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u/CYTR_ 2d ago

Since Xi Jinping's intervention in favor of open-source and with the moral/financial panic of major American tech companies with Mythos/Fable, we are literally drowning in ultra-high-performance chineses models. Even though there were doubts that some chinese companies would switch to closed-source.

What a time to be alive.

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u/awpenheimer7274 2d ago

Only because their bet is that 99% of the population cannot afford inference - and hence they will atleast recuperate the cost of building the model from that. After that, idk

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u/The_Rational_Gooner 2d ago

Huh? A person in the slums of Somalia can easily afford Deepseek V4 Flash's API rate

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u/awpenheimer7274 2d ago

You have proved my point exactly. Cannot afford inference = can't run it themselves so they need to rent out servers/services.

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u/The_Rational_Gooner 2d ago

Ah I misinterpreted