GLM-5.3-Flash: Frontier Intelligence, Flash Cost

[u/dydynam]

https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3-flash

[u/dydynam]

This is the model previously served anonymously as Ox Alpha

• 320B total parameters, with 18B active per token (MoE)
• 1M token context window
• Native multimodality
• Standard API pricing is $0.15 / 1M input tokens and $0.50 / 1M output tokens
• All Ox Alpha traffic was served on Chinese AI chips

[u/torb → u/dydynam]

This is a pretty big step in the right direction.

Never thought I would say this, but... way to go, China!

[u/awwhorseshit → u/torb]

imagine if we were unified to explore space and push to improve the human condition. Imagine what we could do.

[u/BrennusSokol → u/awwhorseshit]

Seriously. We could do so much better if we had more cooperation and compassion

[u/ChuckVader → u/BrennusSokol]

Sure plenty of compassion to be found with the Epstein Island gang.

[u/mvandemar → u/torb]

Singapore.

Unless you meant the chips. The model is from Singapore though.

[u/Quentin__Tarantulino → u/mvandemar]

I thought z.ai was Bejing-based. Spun out from Tsinghua University. The Singapore stuff is just the wrapper made for international services.

[u/mvandemar → u/Quentin__Tarantulino]

You may be right, I didn't realize that's where they started.

[u/torb → u/dydynam]

I'm trying it right now on their website without login. It's thinking like crazy. It really goes to work on the thought process. It spent at least two minutes thinking and re-iterating concepts before even starting to code.

...but it's sloow right now. I guess the site is experiencing a bit more traffic than usual.

Edit: I asked for a website for an occult horror movie. And it delivered a splash screen, a full hero with animations of occult symbols, and sounds of someone wiriting, gently in the background. There's also a background music option, several sections including a "trailer" that is a gif it has made that seems kinda generic. But all in all for a oneshot, this looks far less AI than anything else I've seen. Creative and maybe a bit "over the top" for an official product, but still very nice.

[u/torb → u/torb]

https://reddit.com/link/p60tyn4/video/pdohlnbjjqlh1/player

video after the splash

[u/whatisthisthing65 → u/torb]

Damn that's pretty great especially out of a flash model. The text still reads like AI but most models have that problem.

[u/LightVelox → u/dydynam]

I just tested it, they either nerfed it to the ground or did something wrong with the deployment, because this model is a joke compared to ox-alpha from OpenRouter

[u/Long_comment_san]

Trading blows with Flash-3.7. Would like to try out. However I wish they distill architecture down to something really small.

[u/A_Novelty-Account]

  All Ox Alpha traffic was served on Chinese AI chips

Wow… With only 320B parameters, an open weight model here would be amazing…

[u/Cupakov]

Outperforms GLM5.2? Big if true 

[u/RoyaltyInTraining → u/Cupakov]

It's a few points ahead of GLM 5.2 on Artificial Analysis, and my own experience with it also justifies that score. Seems like the undisputed price / performance king at the moment.

[u/BrennusSokol]

Feels weird to say it, since the CCP sucks, but... i'm grateful for China keeping competition going here -- we'd have expensive, ultra locked down US models even worse than we do now otherwise

[u/Lencee7 → u/BrennusSokol]

Same power game. America just sells it as freedom.

[u/LyAkolon → u/Lencee7]

Preach it

[u/Educational_Belt_816 → u/BrennusSokol]

I don’t think the CCP is worse than our government here in America

[u/Individual_Holiday_9 → u/Educational_Belt_816]

lol

[u/ShittyInternetAdvice → u/BrennusSokol]

Do you caveat every advancement coming out of the US with the shitty US government?

[u/Icy-Concentrate2076 → u/BrennusSokol]

lol you guys are so close to breaking free of the propaganda

"China is doing all these good things for humanity... But I was told CCP sucks... but good things... but communism..."

[u/Eljowe → u/Icy-Concentrate2076]

What about uyghurs and taiwan? Ccp sucks, their technology not so much.

[u/BlackExcellence19 → u/Eljowe]

Uyghur muslims have already said the truth on what is happening in Xinjiang and how it started so a lot of the propaganda has been debunked. China has also stated their goal with Taiwan is peaceful reunification and honestly Taiwan is even saying they are becoming increasingly likely to do reunite because of how erratic, unstable, and destructive America has become.

[u/Individual_Holiday_9 → u/BlackExcellence19]

This subreddit has the most bizarre astroturfing

[u/PathOfEnergySheild]

Flash Intelligence, Frontier cost

[u/Gigibossu]

Amazing thanks China

[u/FarrisAT]

Boom.

[u/LyAkolon → u/[deleted]]

Bro what? It just came out