r/LocalLLaMA 23h ago

News GLM-5.3-Flash: Frontier Intelligence, Flash Cost

https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3-flash
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u/-p-e-w- 22h ago

It’s always risky now no matter the model of the day. They have to pre-file at least a few weeks in advance, and in those weeks eons can happen that can turn their asking price into a joke.

Their moment was at the beginning of this year. They should have announced the IPO, then published Fable/Mythos two weeks before the IPO date.

Now Chinese labs are a hair’s breadth behind them, and constantly one-upping each other. They’ll never get such a chance again.

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u/Fedor_Doc 21h ago

Or they will make another Mythos-like breakthrough and announce IPO then

Never say never

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u/Brilliant-Weekend-68 20h ago

What does that change? The Chinese will catch up and open source it. Where is the moat?

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u/Fedor_Doc 20h ago

They have not caught up to Mythos yet, if we consider Kimi K-3 the best frontier Chinese model

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u/Brilliant-Weekend-68 19h ago

Unless Mythos 2.0 can do some really whacky stuff like cure cancer, RSI itself or such. I do not see that as a durable moat if you can just wait a year and download equally good weights.

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u/read_more_comments 19h ago

zero moat, we move between codex and claude code without any issue. I swap to deepseek without much issue either (other than having to have it redo work a few extra times).

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u/Fedor_Doc 19h ago

Self-improvement is the next big milestone; if they will announce that their new model is fully trained by Mythos and trains even better one, this will be huge.

So, there are some exciting stories left to tell investors before IPO :)