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GLM-5.3-Flash is a multimodal foundation model from Z.ai built for high-efficiency reasoning, coding, agents, and visual understanding. The model contains 320 billion parameters in total but activates only 18 billion parameters during inference, helping reduce compute requirements. Its architecture combines linear attention with sparse attention so it can efficiently handle both local dependencies and relevant information spread across very long contexts. Z.ai also introduced IndexPool to reduce the memory and latency overhead associated with long-context retrieval at context lengths reaching one million tokens. The model was pretrained on a 30-trillion-token multimodal dataset that incorporates both textual and visual information. GLM-5.3-Flash is designed for software engineering tasks, autonomous workflows, frontend development, computer use, document analysis, and other professional workloads that benefit from visual reasoning. Its visual coding capabilities allow it to inspect rendered interfaces, identify layout or interaction problems, and use those observations to revise its work. Benchmark results published by Z.ai show that it improves substantially over GLM-5.2 on multiple coding and agentic tests while remaining competitive with more expensive frontier models. GLM-5.3-Flash can be accessed through Z.ai services and is also available as downloadable model weights for deployment through supported open inference frameworks.

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MAI-Thinking-1 represents Microsoft AI's advanced reasoning model, specifically engineered to tackle intricate and significant challenges, exhibiting superior reasoning capabilities alongside robust software engineering performance within its category. This model features a configuration of 35 billion active parameters and roughly 1 trillion total parameters as a sparse Mixture of Experts, allowing it to maintain a more streamlined inference footprint compared to much larger alternatives while still achieving performance comparable to leading models on essential software engineering benchmarks. Microsoft developed MAI-Thinking-1 from the ground up, utilizing high-quality, enterprise-grade, commercially licensed data, ensuring that its abilities are acquired rather than derived from third-party models. Integral to Microsoft AI’s innovative Hill-Climbing Machine, this model benefits from a collaborative development process designed for ongoing and reliable enhancements throughout all stages of model creation. MAI-Thinking-1 is particularly suited for agentic coding environments, as it is capable of reading code, modifying files, executing tests, detecting errors, and recovering from mistakes made along the way. This ability to adapt and learn in real-time makes it a valuable asset for developers seeking efficiency and reliability in their projects.

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Integrations

Cheaper Inference
Claude Code
Claude Sonnet 4.6
DeepSeek Harness
GLM Coding Plan
GitHub Copilot
Hermes Agent
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Foundry
OpenClaw
OpenCode Go
OpenCode Zen
OpenRouter
Pi Agent
Visual Studio Code
Z.ai
omp

Integrations

Cheaper Inference
Claude Code
Claude Sonnet 4.6
DeepSeek Harness
GLM Coding Plan
GitHub Copilot
Hermes Agent
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Foundry
OpenClaw
OpenCode Go
OpenCode Zen
OpenRouter
Pi Agent
Visual Studio Code
Z.ai
omp

Pricing Details

$0.15 per 1M tokens (input)
Input: $0.15 per 1M tokens
Output: $0.50 per 1M tokens
Cached input: $0.03 per 1M tokens
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Deployment

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iPad App
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Windows
Mac
Linux
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Types of Training

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Types of Training

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Live Training (Online)
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Vendor Details

Company Name

Z.ai

Founded

2019

Country

China

Website

z.ai

Vendor Details

Company Name

Microsoft AI

Founded

2024

Country

United States

Website

microsoft.ai/news/introducing-mai-thinking-1/

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