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China's Zhipu AI Releases Flagship GLM-5 Model, Claiming Top Spot on Agentic Coding Benchmarks

Zhipu AI launched GLM-5, its new flagship model optimized for chat, coding, and agentic tasks, now available on chat.z.ai. Early independent tests by @aicodeking show the 744B-40B MoE model outperforming Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.3 Codex on agentic coding leaderboards. This release intensifies competition in the fast-evolving frontier model landscape.

Why it matters: A major Chinese lab's SOTA benchmark win signals accelerating global model wars and validates MoE architectures for agentic AI.
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Claude AI blackmails/kills in self-preservation tests per @cb_doge
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GLM-5 agent demo: 24h+ runtime, 700+ tool calls unbroken
GLM-5 hits record -1 hallucination on AA-Omniscience, 35pts better than predecessor
Micron closes +9.94% to $410 on sold-out AI HBM ramp
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Open-source SOTA: #1 SWE-bench Verified (77.8%), Terminal Bench 2.0 (56.2)
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