GLM 5.2 vs Sonnet 4.6 vs MiniMax M3: Benchmarks Tested
Verified benchmarks, licences and first-party prices for GLM 5.2, Sonnet 4.6 and MiniMax M3, updated for GLM 5.3, Sonnet 5 and Opus 5.5.
BetterClaw Blog30 min read
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Latest open artifacts (#24): Motif-3, GLM-5.3, Hy4-preview and open model licenses
Avid Artifacts readers know that we have been covering not only models but also their licenses for quite some time. There was a period when custom licenses were all the rage, for example the custom Qwen2.5 72B-Instruct license or the Llama licenses.
Interconnects4 min read
GLM-5.3 vs. GLM-5.3 Flash on DeepSWE: Cost, Coding, and Routing
We ran 900 DeepSWE rollouts on GLM-5.3 and GLM-5.3 Flash. Flash gives up 5.6 points of pass@1 at 17x lower cost, and only 2.6 points at pass@4.
Together AI Blog12 min read
GLM-5.3-Flash Architecture Notes
Architecture note on GLM-5.3-Flash, formerly Ox Alpha, covering its KDA and MLA/DSA hybrid attention, sparse MoE backbone, and four-stream mHC residual path.
Sebastian Raschka1 min read
GLM-5.3 vs. Claude Fable 5 on DeepSWE: Cost, Coding, and Routing
We ran 904 DeepSWE rollouts on GLM-5.3 and Claude Fable 5. A tie on pass@1, but GLM-5.3 wins pass@4 and costs 5.4x less: \$3.99 per rollout vs. \$21.63.
Together AI Blog10 min read
GLM-5.3 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol on DeepSWE: Cost, Coding, and Routing
We ran 904 DeepSWE rollouts on GLM-5.3 and GPT-5.6 Sol. Sol leads pass@1 by 3.7 points; GLM-5.3 wins pass@4 at half the cost, and a GLM-first cascade hits 85.9%.
Together AI Blog10 min read
GLM-5.3: How Chinese labs keep stride with the frontier
Today, Z.ai announced their GLM-5.3 model, currently only available in the coding plan, coming soon to their API and in two weeks’ time to Hugging Face (open weights). This model looks exceptional, with a somewhat astounding increase in scores.
Interconnects8 min read
Last Week in AI #250 - Mythos Mess, GPT 5.6-Sol, GLM 5.2
Anthropic's AI treaty discussions, US government's influence on AI model releases, OpenAI's processor development, memory market impacts, and more!
Last Week in AI4 min read
LOL #15 - Fable 5 Is Back, GLM-5.2 Fast, and v2.2.9 Quality-of-Life
This week at LobeHub: Anthropic's Fable 5 is back and ready to use in LobeHub, GLM-5.2 Fast arrives with a side-by-side you have to see, and v2.2.9 lands a round of quality-of-life updates across the platform.
LobeHub Blog2 min read
LOL #14 - AWS Summit, a New Mobile Look, and GLM-5.2 Takes Off
This week at LobeHub: our founders took the stage at AWS Summit China 2026, the mobile app got a fresh new look built for the thumb and the glance, and GLM-5.2, the model we shipped just last week, became one of the most reached-for models on the platform.
LobeHub Blog2 min read
GLM-5.2 is the step change for open agents
A bit over a week ago, when the AI world was still reeling from the shocking export restriction, and effective banning, of Claude Fable 5, Z.ai released their latest model, GLM-5.2. This model was rolled out unusually on a Saturday, June 13th, to GLM Coding Plan members.
Interconnects8 min read
LOL #13 - GLM-5.2, a Glossary, and a CLI for Agents
This week at LobeHub: GLM-5.2 delivers frontier capability at up to 10× lower cost, audio attachments let models that support audio listen, a new top-level Glossary brings order to agent-era jargon, and we sharpen the pitch on a CLI built for agents: no dashboard, no human in the loop.
LobeHub Blog3 min read
GLM-5.2 and IndexShare for Long-Context Sparse Attention
How GLM-5.2 uses IndexShare to reuse sparse-attention token selections across layers and reduce long-context indexer computation.
Sebastian Raschka4 min read
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