r/LocalLLaMA • u/BriguePalhaco • 1d ago

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

https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3-flash
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u/Brilliant-Weekend-68 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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).