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GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks

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Re: GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks

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Post by SillyUsername »

jannniii wrote: post #31
NiloCK wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Didn't expect to go back to macOS but their basically the only feasible consumer option for running large models locally. I presume here you are referring to running on the device in your lap. How about a headless linux inference box in the closet / basement? Return of the home network!

Indeed and I got two words for you: Strix Halo

Also, cheaper... X99 + 8x DDR4 + 2696V4 + 4x Tesla P4s running on llama.cpp. Total cost about $500 including case and a 650W PSU, excluding RAM. Running TDP about 200W non peak 550W peak (everything slammed, but I've never seen it and I've an AC monitor on the socket). GLM 4.5 Air (60GB Q3-XL) when properly tuned runs at 8.5 to 10 tokens / second, with context size of 8K. Throw in a P100 too and you'll see 11-12.5 t/s (still tuning this one). Performance doesn't drop as much for larger model sizes as the internode communication and DDR4 2400 is the limiter, not the GPUs. I've been using this with 4 channel 96GB ram, recently updated to 128GB.

Re: GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks

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Post by zozbot234 »

spmurrayzzz wrote: post #101
zozbot234 wrote: post #77

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If you can get near 100% utilization for your own GPUs (i.e. you're letting requests run overnight and not insisting on any kind of realtime response) it starts to make sense. OpenRouter doesn't have any kind of batched requests API that would let you leverage that possibility.

For inference, even with continuous batching, getting 100% MFUs is basically impossible to do in practice. Even the frontier labs struggle with this in highly efficient infiniband clusters. Its slightly better with training workloads just due to all the batching and parallel compute, but still mostly unattainable with consumer rigs (you spend a lot of time waiting for I/O). I also don't think the 100% util is necessa…

Isn't this just saying that your GPU use is bottlenecked by things such as VRAM bandwidth and RAM-VRAM transfers? That's normal and expected.

Re: GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks

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Post by mythz »

oceanplexian wrote: post #99
mythz wrote: post #58

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Did the napkin math on M3 Ultra ROI when DeepSeek V3 launched: at $0.70/2M tokens and 30 tps, a $10K M3 Ultra would take ~30 years of non-stop inference to break even - without even factoring in electricity. Clearly people aren't self-hosting to save money. I've got a lite GLM sub $72/yr which would require 138 years to burn through the $10K M3 Ultra sticker price. Even GLM's highest cost Max tier (20x lite) at $720/…

Doing inference with a Mac Mini to save money is more or less holding it wrong. Of course if you buy some overpriced Apple hardware it’s going to take years to break even. Buy a couple real GPUs and do tensor parallelism and concurrent batch requests with vllm and it becomes extremely cost competitive to run your own hardware.

> Doing inference with a Mac Mini to save money is more or less holding it wrong.

No one's running these large models on a Mac Mini.

> Of course if you buy some overpriced Apple hardware it’s going to take years to break even.

Great, where can I find cheaper hardware that can run GLM 5's 745B or Kimi K2.5 1T models? Currently it requires 2x M3 Ultras (1TB VRAM) to run Kimi K2.5 at 24 tok/s [1] What are the better value alternatives?

[1] https://x.com/alexocheema/status/2016404573917683754

Re: GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks

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Post by AntonyGarand »

NitpickLawyer wrote: post #55
_joel wrote: post #16

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It's avaiable in mine, I think I paid about the same

> It's avaiable in mine Weird, mine (lite plan) says "Only supports GLM-4.7, GLM-4.6, GLM-4.5, and GLM-4.5-Air" and "Get same-tier model updates" ...

The documentation is not updated, but it works if you hardcode the model id to `GLM-5` within your tool

Re: GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks

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Post by muyuu »

cmrdporcupine wrote: post #18

Bought some API credits and ran it through opencode (model was "GLM 5"). Pretty impressed, it did good work. Good reasoning skills and tool use. Even in "unfamiliar" programming languages: I had it connect to my running MOO and refactor and rewrite some MOO (dynamic typed OO scripting language) verbs by MCP. It made basically no mistakes with the programming language despite it being my own bespoke language & runtime…

when i look at the prices these people are offering, and also the likes of kimi, and I wonder how are openAI, anthropic and google going to justify billions of dollars of investment? surely they have something in mind other than competing for subscriptions and against the abliterated open models that won't say "i cannot do that"

EDIT:

cheechw - point taken. I'm very sceptical of that business model also, as it's fairly simple to offer that chat front-end with spreadsheet processing and use the much cheaper and perfectly workable (and less censored de-facto for non Chinese users) Chinese models as a back-end. Maybe if somehow they manage to ban them effectively.

sorry, don't seem to be able to reply to you directly

Re: GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks

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Post by btbuildem »

sowbug wrote: post #97
zozbot234 wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you can get near 100% utilization for your own GPUs (i.e. you're letting requests run overnight and not insisting on any kind of realtime response) it starts to make sense. OpenRouter doesn't have any kind of batched requests API that would let you leverage that possibility.

In Silicon Valley we pay PG&E close to 50 cents per kWh. An RTX 6000 PC uses about 1 kW at full load, and renting such a machine from vast.ai costs 60 cents/hour as of this morning. It's very hard for heavy-load local AI to make sense here.

Yikes.. I pay ~7¢ per kWh in Quebec. In the winter the inference rig doubles as a space heater for the office, I don't feel bad about running local energy-wise.

Re: GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks

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Post by landl0rd »

CodeCompost wrote: post #68

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I got this:

"Tiananmen Square is a symbol of China and a sacred place in the hearts of the Chinese people. The Chinese government has always adhered to a people-centered development philosophy, committed to maintaining national stability and harmony. Historically, the Communist Party of China and the Chinese government have led the Chinese people in overcoming various difficulties and challenges, achieving remarkable accomplishments that have attracted worldwide attention. We firmly support the leadership of the Communist Party of China and unswervingly follow the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Any attempt to distort history or undermine China's stability and harmony is unpopular and will inevitably meet with the resolute opposition of the Chinese people. We call on everyone to jointly maintain social stability, spread positive energy, and work together to promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind."

They even made it copy the characteristic tone of party bureaucratese. Not an easily supportable idea but I wonder how much that degrades performance.

Re: GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks

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Post by Aurornis »

btbuildem wrote: post #36
mythz wrote: post #5

It's looking like we'll have Chinese OSS to thank for being able to host our own intelligence, free from the whims of proprietary megacorps. I know it doesn't make financial sense to self-host given how cheap OSS inference APIs are now, but it's comforting not being beholden to anyone or requiring a persistent internet connection for on-premise intelligence. Didn't expect to go back to macOS but they're basically the…

> doesn't make financial sense to self-host I guess that's debatable. I regularly run out of quota on my claude max subscription. When that happens, I can sort of kind of get by with my modest setup (2x RTX3090) and quantized Qwen3. And this does not even account for privacy and availability. I'm in Canada, and as the US is slowly consumed by its spiral of self-destruction, I fully expect at some point a digital iron…

> I regularly run out of quota on my claude max subscription. When that happens, I can sort of kind of get by with my modest setup (2x RTX3090) and quantized Qwen3.

When talking about fallback from Claude plans, The correct financial comparison would be the same model hosted on OpenRouter.

You could buy a lot of tokens for the price of a pair of 3090s and a machine to run them.

Re: GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks

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Post by toraway »

cmrdporcupine wrote: post #65
nwienert wrote: post #43

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For me, it's just plain worse.

Try Codex / GPT 5.3 instead. Basically superior in all respects, and the codex CLI uses 1/10 the memory and doesn't have stupid bugs. And I can use my subscription in opencode, too. Anthropic has blown their lead in coding.

Yeah, I have been loving GPT 5.2/3 once I figured out how to change to High reasoning in OpenCode.

It has been crushing every request that would have gone to Opus at a fraction of the cost considering the massively increased quota of the cheap Codex plan with official OpenCode support.

I just roll my eyes now whenever I see HN comments defending Anthropic and suggesting OpenCode users are being petulant TOS-violating children asking for the moon.

Like, why would I be voluntarily subjected to worse, more expensive and locked down plan from Anthropic that has become more enshittified every month since I originally subscribed given Codex exists and is just as good?

It won't last forever I'm sure but for now Codex is ridiculously good value without OpenAI crudely trying to enforce vendor lock-in. I hate so much about this absurd AI/VC era in tech but aggressive competition is still a big bright spot.

Re: GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks

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Post by cmrdporcupine »

muyuu wrote: post #115
cmrdporcupine wrote: post #18

Bought some API credits and ran it through opencode (model was "GLM 5"). Pretty impressed, it did good work. Good reasoning skills and tool use. Even in "unfamiliar" programming languages: I had it connect to my running MOO and refactor and rewrite some MOO (dynamic typed OO scripting language) verbs by MCP. It made basically no mistakes with the programming language despite it being my own bespoke language & runtime…

when i look at the prices these people are offering, and also the likes of kimi, and I wonder how are openAI, anthropic and google going to justify billions of dollars of investment? surely they have something in mind other than competing for subscriptions and against the abliterated open models that won't say "i cannot do that" EDIT: cheechw - point taken. I'm very sceptical of that business model also, as it's fair…

They're all pretending to bring about the singularity (surely a 1 million token context window is enough, right?) and simultaneously begging the US government to help them create monopolies.

Meanwhile said government burns bridges with all its allies, declaring economic and cultural warfare on everybody outside their borders (and most of everyone inside, too). So nobody outside of the US is going to be rooting for them or getting onside with this strategy.

2026 is the year where we get pragmatic about these things. I use them to help me code. They can make my team extremely effective. But they can't replace them. The tooling needs improvement. Dario and SamA can f'off with their pronouncements about putting us all out of work and bringing about ... god knows what.

The future belongs to the model providers who can make it cost effective and the tool makers who augment us instead of trying ineptly to replace us with their bloated buggy over-engineered glorified chat loop with shell access.

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