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GLM-5.3 is Z.ai’s advanced coding and agentic reasoning model built through scaled post-training on top of the GLM-5.2 base model. The release focuses on frontier coding, long-horizon software engineering, agent tasks, cyber evaluation, and reinforcement learning at scale. GLM-5.3 improves significantly over GLM-5.2 on complex coding benchmarks, real-world engineering environments, Terminal Bench 3.0, DeepSWE, Agents’ Last Exam, and Z.ai’s internal Code Bench. The model is trained on environments that resemble real professional work, including tasks involving codebases, infrastructure, documentation, compute clusters, experiments, bottleneck diagnosis, implementation, testing, and measurable optimization. Z.ai’s post-training stack includes IndexShare for efficient long-context processing, SAO for reinforcement learning on long-horizon tasks, and slime for large-scale asynchronous training. GLM-5.3 supports three thinking effort levels, including low, high, and max, with max recommended for coding tasks. The model also demonstrates emergent cyber capabilities across vulnerability discovery and exploitation benchmarks, prompting continued safety evaluation and hardening before weights are released. GLM-5.3 can be used through the GLM Coding Plan, ZCode, Claude Code, OpenCode, and other coding agent workflows. By combining stronger coding performance, long-horizon task execution, post-training scale, cyber evaluation, reasoning effort controls, and coding-agent integrations, GLM-5.3 supports advanced developer and research workflows.

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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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Has API Yes 

API Access

Has API Yes 

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Integrations

APIFree Yes 
Amp Yes 
C Yes 
C# Yes 
CSS Yes 
Cheaper Inference Yes 
Cherry Studio Yes 
Cosmos Yes 
Dessix Yes 
Grok Build Yes 
JavaScript Yes 
LM Studio Bionic Yes 
Microsoft Foundry No 
Ollama Yes 
Python Yes 
Sup AI Yes 
Swift Yes 
Visual Studio Code No 
Z.ai Yes 
pandas Yes 

Integrations

APIFree No 
Amp No 
C No 
C# No 
CSS No 
Cheaper Inference No 
Cherry Studio No 
Cosmos No 
Dessix No 
Grok Build No 
JavaScript No 
LM Studio Bionic No 
Microsoft Foundry Yes 
Ollama No 
Python No 
Sup AI No 
Swift No 
Visual Studio Code Yes 
Z.ai No 
pandas No 

Pricing Details

Free
Open source
Free Trial No 
Free Version Yes 

Pricing Details

No price information available.
Free Trial No 
Free Version No 

Deployment

Web-Based Yes 
On-Premises Yes 
iPhone App No 
iPad App No 
Android App No 
Windows Yes 
Mac Yes 
Linux Yes 
Chromebook No 

Deployment

Web-Based Yes 
On-Premises No 
iPhone App No 
iPad App No 
Android App No 
Windows No 
Mac No 
Linux No 
Chromebook No 

Customer Support

Business Hours No 
Live Rep (24/7) No 
Online Support Yes 

Customer Support

Business Hours No 
Live Rep (24/7) No 
Online Support Yes 

Types of Training

Training Docs Yes 
Webinars No 
Live Training (Online) No 
In Person No 

Types of Training

Training Docs Yes 
Webinars No 
Live Training (Online) No 
In Person No 

Vendor Details

Company Name

Z.ai

Founded

2023

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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