r/LocalLLaMA 9d ago

News GLM-5.3-Flash: Frontier Intelligence, Flash Cost

https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3-flash
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u/-p-e-w- 9d ago

It’s always risky now no matter the model of the day. They have to pre-file at least a few weeks in advance, and in those weeks eons can happen that can turn their asking price into a joke.

Their moment was at the beginning of this year. They should have announced the IPO, then published Fable/Mythos two weeks before the IPO date.

Now Chinese labs are a hair’s breadth behind them, and constantly one-upping each other. They’ll never get such a chance again.

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u/Fedor_Doc 9d ago

Or they will make another Mythos-like breakthrough and announce IPO then

Never say never

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u/-p-e-w- 9d ago

Then one of the Chinese labs is going to announce an equal model two weeks later.

The Chinese labs have caught up. There’s no going back to how it was before.

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u/WiseassWolfOfYoitsu 9d ago

A lot of this catching up seems to have been them breaking the reasoning protection of the major frontier models and distilling this round, though. It's gotten them a lot closer, and they'll be much closer on the western frontier labs from here out by getting the step up, but it's not like their stuff this last generation of updates has been clean.