Is it good compare to Opus 5 ?
GLM-5.3-Flash
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Re: GLM-5.3-Flash
#232Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a counter to that - I've tried various flavors/quants/full weights and Qwen 3.8 27B has been entirely useless at anything non-trivial. Sure - it can do some boilerplate work (though, even armed with a well written spec and working within a very well known framework it went off the rails and did things in a way that were... um... questionable at best) but I don't see it as anything more than a personal assistant st…
I've had the exact opposite experience. I've been using 3.8 for my daily driver since last week, and I've gradually been giving it more and more complex tasks as it continues to deliver high quality results. Now I am basically handing off large complex features, and 3.8 is doing the planning, task breakdown, implementation and review with just a few notes from my side. The tradeoff is time (especially on RDMA4 hardwa…
Fascinating that after years of for me this for me that, literally no one writes 2-3 other words like “i do react frontend” or whatever just for us to know why the results are different
Re: GLM-5.3-Flash
#233Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you used the bare API pricing, 1M tokens @ 30% input/70% output/50% cached, you'd pay $0.05805. Even with four discounted sparks, how much are you paying for the same tokens/distribution?
If your usage wouldn't change with local inference and you don't have security/privacy concerns then at the currently heavily subsidized pricing, sure.. not economical. But things change real fast when you're no longer bound by costs/apis/rate limits. All of a sudden it's not about "how can I do this right and efficiently" and more about "I can poke at and test _all the things_ that might make this better". I think m…
What do you do with all those tokens?
Re: GLM-5.3-Flash
#234Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a counter to that - I've tried various flavors/quants/full weights and Qwen 3.8 27B has been entirely useless at anything non-trivial. Sure - it can do some boilerplate work (though, even armed with a well written spec and working within a very well known framework it went off the rails and did things in a way that were... um... questionable at best) but I don't see it as anything more than a personal assistant st…
I've had the exact opposite experience. I've been using 3.8 for my daily driver since last week, and I've gradually been giving it more and more complex tasks as it continues to deliver high quality results. Now I am basically handing off large complex features, and 3.8 is doing the planning, task breakdown, implementation and review with just a few notes from my side. The tradeoff is time (especially on RDMA4 hardwa…
What harness? I've had similar results as _Implicated_ said above - it's not done well in any of the tests I've tried with it. I currently have it hung off DS4Flash as a pseudo-vision tool and subagent only because of this.
Re: GLM-5.3-Flash
#235Earlier quoted context omitted.
Another self-inflicted own courtesy of US government policy. While I think China would always get to hardware self-sufficiency eventually, all export controls have done is (1) accelerate China's development, and (2) divert revenue that would've otherwise gone to NVIDIA/AMD/etc instead.
The export controls were revoked before it triggered Chinese protectionism: https://www.silicon.co.uk/e-innovation/artificial-intelligen... / https://archive.vn/B2pah
And it doesn't matter, it still pushed China to speed-up their AI related hardware development.
Re: GLM-5.3-Flash
#236Nice, finally they fixed the huge reasoning tokens count.
Now it's similar cost to DeepSeek v4 flash, but smarter.
My tests: https://aibenchy.com/compare/z-ai-glm-5-3-flash-max/deepseek...
Re: GLM-5.3-Flash
#237It's only 320B, local frontier AI is getting closer, sooner than expected.
It's not possible to keep shrinking down parameters and keep "frontier" performance, it's like saying it's possible to take a 3 hour movie and compress it down to 3 megabytes, there are information theoretic limits on the amount of bits of information that can be compressed. What I'm saying is, if you're expecting a model that can be run on a 16GB or 32GB machine with the intelligence/knowledge of Mythos or Sol, it w…
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Re: GLM-5.3-Flash
#238It's only 320B, local frontier AI is getting closer, sooner than expected.
It's not possible to keep shrinking down parameters and keep "frontier" performance, it's like saying it's possible to take a 3 hour movie and compress it down to 3 megabytes, there are information theoretic limits on the amount of bits of information that can be compressed. What I'm saying is, if you're expecting a model that can be run on a 16GB or 32GB machine with the intelligence/knowledge of Mythos or Sol, it w…
You can fit Shrek 1 into a 13mb gif tho
https://www.deviantart.com/sssfjknfvdknj/art/the-ENTIRE-shre...
Re: GLM-5.3-Flash
#239You guys read Z.ai's terms of service, right? Broad and perpetual license over inputs and outputs, and even your name and profile picture. Vague prohibitions on whatever may harm Z.ai’s "interests" or even the "national interests" of any country. Vague prohibitions on "disturbing" or "inappropriate" content, whatever that is. Vague prohibitions on discussing Z.ai, even my posting this comment violates it. Can ban you…
> Vague prohibitions on "disturbing" or "inappropriate" content, whatever that is.
I have prompted out a lot of disturbing and inappropriate content with GLM-5.2, that would have left other American models blanched in the face or clutch their pearls. I think this is mostly a reference to Anti-CCP stuff.
In fact, I don't think I've ever even had a prompt refused.
Re: GLM-5.3-Flash
#240Ironically, our administration pushing for ban of the AI chips to China is forcing them to make smaller and more efficient models which seems like a requirement for running on Chinese chips. I wouldn’t be surprised this model was tailored to run purely on Chinese chips. Same thing with Deepseek MLA, the drastically lower KV cache memory requirement was born out of necessity so it runs on the Huawei chips.
This is exactly what Jenson said in all of his interviews. Banning it in the short term would have long term consequences.