GLM

Anish Acharya

uses mentioned GLM-5.3 · newest

"GLM 5.3 just came out, which I used for a bunch of product work. It doesn't have a vision component, and it's sort of like this neurotic PhD you put in the corner. And they both have their role."

This Week in Startups

uses mentioned GLM-5.12 versions old · newest is GLM-5.3

"Somebody gave me an API key to a Bittensor subnet that had put GLM-5.1 from Z.AI. And I was like, okay, I'm not being metered. Instead of doing this daily cron job to do research on something, I was like, give it to me every hour."

Emad Mostaque

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"Flash is a perfectly decent model but it's not as good as the Chinese models, especially the new GLM Flash that's just come out — it's 10 times cheaper for the same performance. Fable scores 60 on the artificial analysis benchmark. The new GLM Fla..."

Riley Brown

uses mentioned GLM-5.21 version old · newest is GLM-5.3

"This model after spending a ton of time actually using it, I do believe that it passes the vibe check. I think that it's getting close to the frontier labs, specifically Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5. I also connected GLM 5.2 to my Notion, to my Slack, and..."

"I start with Grok, GLM-5.2, and I also put it into Claude and the results are as good or better. I can't even tell the difference between these."

Naval Ravikant

uses GLM-5.21 version old · newest is GLM-5.3

"You can always just switch to GLM 5.2 and it'll just do it. Have the time of your life. Go ask it any question about race, gender, immigration, mental health, doctor advice, legal advice."

Claire Vo

uses GLM-5.21 version old · newest is GLM-5.3

"It's good. I would use it for front-end work. I would use it for long-running back-end tasks. I spent $3.36 on about 6 million tokens. If you compare this to the cost of an Opus or a GPT 5.5, this is a steal. I think I'm going to keep it running i..."

Dave Blundin

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"Within open weights, you might want to start with the new GLM model which has fewer parameters but it's still a very long context window which gives you more flexibility. It's less locked into its training than the closed source models. And so if ..."

"GLM dropped — we added it to Vercel AI gateway. It's an incredibly good model, GLM 5.2. Within days, we had a fast variant that was four times faster. GLM 5.2 fast is astonishingly fast and it's only getting faster. If I have an agent that needs t..."

Y Combinator

mentioned GLM-5.21 version old · newest is GLM-5.3

"I've already downloaded Kimi K3 and GLM 5.2 already in my garage, so sorry."

"It's in the realm of GLM 5.2, which a couple months ago was a frontier Chinese model."

a16z

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"You can get to the Pareto frontier with these, you know, Kimi K3 or pick your favorite, like GLM, open source model."

Liam Ottley

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"They're not going to absolutely rinse you on using the frontier ones, and you can say, 'Look, I want to save 90% of my cost and use GLM or something.'"

"You can use GLM, Kimi, Qwen. All these different things are toolkits and you should benchmark every single workflow against every single model."

"The upcoming security problem is not going to be from OpenAI and Anthropic. It is going to be from open-weight models. The real challenge we're going to be facing is GLM 53, Kimi K3 — those things are within percentage points of the best American ..."

Greg Isenberg

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"There's also GLM, or people know it as Z.AI. It's another one you'll see pop up a lot. Some of these models can be weirdly good for specific jobs, so I wouldn't ignore them just because they're not the obvious brand name."

"Hugging Face used GLM 5.2 to solve its cybersecurity hack."

"Hugging Face had to turn to — I think it was GLM 5.2, which is a Chinese model. So here we have Western companies about to be acquired by Nvidia being forced to turn to Chinese models for cyber defense because the guardrails have prevented them fr..."

"We saw the announcement and the release of the GLM 5.3 model and its capabilities from a cybersecurity standpoint — extremely impressive. It creates a big opportunity for whether it's startups or existing businesses in the security and governance ..."

"GLM 5.2 was a really big, big step for open weight models. Kimi was kind of like Moonshot getting up to that step."

Peter Diamandis

mentioned GLM-5.21 version old · newest is GLM-5.3

"Hugging Face had to fall back on a self-hosted Chinese open-weight model, specifically GLM 5.2, just to investigate their own breach."

The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway

mentioned Said Jul 2026, when GLM-5.2 was newest

"Other Chinese models like GLM — GLM caused a very big wave. It may not have done the rounds in the same way that Kimi did, but it was certainly a great model."

"If you think about the latency of Claude Code versus GLM 5.2, it's roughly the same. You can compare the price of GLM 5.2 on Baseten or whatever Fireworks to the price you pay for an equivalent frontier model with same latency. The difference is a..."

John Coogan

mentioned GLM-5.21 version old · newest is GLM-5.3

"Hugging Face had to turn to open models, specifically GLM 5.2, which is deeply ironic — a Chinese open-weight model that they run on their own infrastructure."

Chamath Palihapitiya

mentioned Said Jul 2026, when GLM-5.2 was newest

"If that's true, then why don't I just take GLM, control it entirely, soup to nuts, on my own hardware inside of the United States with only US citizens that can touch it. It just seems like the brain-dead obvious thing to do, and it's much, much c..."

"A lot of our portfolios have been playing with it and they're saying that they're getting equivalent results for a fraction of the cost. And I think that's why they are all getting ready, if they're not already, to be model agnostic."

Jordi Hays

mentioned GLM-5.21 version old · newest is GLM-5.3

"The big story is centering around GLM 5.2 from Z.AI. It was officially released June 13th. There's been some strong performance on benchmarks, some positive reviews from developers."