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Tsinghua computer science professor and Z.ai co-founder; creator of AMiner and contributor to GLM-130B, ChatGLM, CogView, CogVideo and CodeGeeX.
Amazon Bedrock now offers Z.ai's 753B-parameter mixture-of-experts GLM 5.3 as a managed API, available only to eligible enterprise customers. Coding-agent teams can call a model that size without running inference hardware of their own.
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Zhipu AI says repository data left only while a project description page was being generated, and that the behaviour is fixed. The developer who found it says earlier versions sent data on every query, and some companies have stopped using ZCode.
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A developer found a 313MB archive of his commercial project queued for upload and could not open it, because the private key sits on Z.ai's back end. Z.ai says the data is destroyed once the page is built.
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A reverse-engineering walkthrough published September 18th traced a 313MB archive in ZCode's local data directory to a 42,411-file commercial workspace whose Git objects and LFS blobs were 86.6% of the payload.
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DeAlignAI's downloadable FP8 build is the license working exactly as written, while its self-reported 320-of-320 HarmBench run remains unchecked by any outside researcher and measures compliance, not capability.
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The anonymous GLM model more than doubled DeepSeek's usage while researchers, not the maker, worked out who built it. Chinese labs are treating nameless launches as a repeatable tactic.
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The 5 trillion token ceiling only binds if every allocation is claimed and then spent. Until it is, this is a short window to test a rival coding agent on someone else's inference bill.
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Z.ai's August 14 post claims post-training gains for coding agents, but the company's release notes still stop at GLM-5.1 and there is no API endpoint, model identifier or weight download.
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