Z.ai Releases GLM-5.3-Flash: A 320B-A18B Natively Multimodal MoE With a 1M-Token Context
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Sens.ai assesses this as a material open-weight capability release, but the reported performance and efficiency claims have not been independently corroborated in the supplied item.
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What to watch
- Independent reproduction of Terminal-Bench and DeepSWE scores
- Third-party testing of multimodal and million-token context performance
- Adoption of the weights in self-hosted or sovereign AI deployments
- Observed inference cost and KV-cache savings in production
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Z.ai Releases GLM-5.3-Flash: A 320B-A18B Natively Multimodal MoE With a 1M-Token Context
MarkTechPostAug 26, 2026First report
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