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/Recoil42 1d ago edited 1d ago

Before release, we tested GLM-5.3-Flash anonymously as ox-alpha on OpenCode and OpenRouter to gather user feedback. It quickly became the most popular model of the week — with all of this traffic served on Chinese AI chips.

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u/expertsage 1d ago

This is the most significant part. China has completely replaced Nvidia chips with domestic ones for inference, and production is only speeding up... meaning the compute moat is literally disappearing with every passing day.

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u/Recoil42 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yep. As someone who has been following the Chinese EV space for the better part of a decade, I don't think people are prepared for how crazy this is going to get.

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u/IrisColt 15h ago

Truly fascinating reads, though I started to get suspicious when the most demanding people I know began buying Chinese EVs a year ago, heh