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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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C
C#
C++
Cherry Studio
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Cline
ClinePass
Cosmos
GitHub Copilot
JetBrains Junie
Kilo Code
LM Studio
LM Studio Bionic
Roo Code
SQL
Sup AI
Visual Studio Code
Yonoo
Z.ai
Zo Computer

Integrations

C
C#
C++
Cherry Studio
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Cline
ClinePass
Cosmos
GitHub Copilot
JetBrains Junie
Kilo Code
LM Studio
LM Studio Bionic
Roo Code
SQL
Sup AI
Visual Studio Code
Yonoo
Z.ai
Zo Computer

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Deployment

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iPad App
Android App
Windows
Mac
Linux
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Customer Support

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Types of Training

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Live Training (Online)
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Types of Training

Training Docs
Webinars
Live Training (Online)
In Person

Vendor Details

Company Name

Z.ai

Founded

2023

Country

China

Website

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Vendor Details

Company Name

Microsoft AI

Founded

2024

Country

United States

Website

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

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