2026-09-07
Frontier Intelligence at Flash Cost: What GLM-5.3-Flash Actually Means
Z.ai just dropped GLM-5.3-Flash: 320B total, 18B active, MIT-licensed, natively multimodal, and it hit #1 of the week on OpenRouter before it even shipped. The interesting part isn't the benchmark — it's that the whole week of traffic ran on Chinese AI chips.