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Z.ai·GLM

GLM-5.3-Flash

The first natively multimodal GLM-5 Flash model: 320B total, 18B active parameters, hybrid sparse and linear attention, and text, image, video, and file understanding.

CurrentReasoningCodingAgentMultimodalOpen weights

Z.ai’s technical update on 2026-09-28 UTC confirms GLM-5.3-Flash is available to all GLM Coding Plan users and in AutoClaw; its official weights use the MIT License.

MODEL NUMBER132
First public date
2026-09-15
Organization
Z.ai
Family
GLM
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Specifications

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Total parameters
320B↗
Active parameters
18B↗
Architecture
Hybrid↗
Context
1,000,000 tokens↗
Input modalities
Text · Image · Video↗
Open weights
Yes↗
License
MIT↗
Status
Current
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Overview

Release dates

— The Z.ai / AutoClaw page’s structured metadata dates GLM-5.3-Flash to 2026-09-15 and confirms MIT-licensed weights with native text, image, video, and file support. ↗

Why it mattered

Z.ai further disclosed a 30T-token multimodal pretraining corpus and Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections (mHC), reporting about 3× less attention compute and a 4.4× smaller KV cache than GLM-5.3.

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Architecture & capabilities

Attention

Sparse AttentionLinear Attention

Model capabilities

Native multimodalLong-horizon agentCoding

Connected tools

Computer use
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Release history

Open weights

The Z.ai / AutoClaw page’s structured metadata dates GLM-5.3-Flash to 2026-09-15 and confirms MIT-licensed weights with native text, image, video, and file support.

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