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GLM-5.3-Flash scores 57 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. At $0.09 Cost per Task, it sits comfortably on the Intelligence vs. Cost per Task Pareto frontier @Zai_org has released GLM-5.3-Flash, a smaller and cheaper sibling to GLM-5.3 at 320B total parameters and just 18B active parameters. GLM-5.3-Flash supports low/high/max reasoning efforts, and scores 57 evaluation on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with max reasoning effort. This places the model only 3 points behind GLM-5.3 at 60 and in line with GPT-5.6 Terra and Muse Spark 1.2. On Z AI's first-party API, GLM-5.3-Flash is priced at $0.15 / 1M input tokens and $0.50 / 1M output tokens, just over 10% of the price of GLM-5.3. Cached input tokens are priced at $0.026 / 1M tokens, an 80% discount. Its Cost per Task on the Intelligence Index is $0.09, compared to $0.68 for GLM-5.3 (max), and it sits on the Pareto frontier for Intelligence vs. Cost per Task. Key results: ➤ GLM-5.3-Flash is 3 points behind GLM-5.3 (max) on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, at ~7.5x lower Cost per Task. At $0.09 per Intelligence Index task against $0.68 for GLM-5.3, it sits on the Pareto frontier for Intelligence vs. Cost per Task. It ties GPT-5.6 Terra ($0.51) and Muse Spark 1.2 ($0.40) at 57 while costing ~5.7x and ~4.4x less per task. ➤ GLM-5.3-Flash is less token efficient, but its low per-token pricing means this does not translate into a high Cost per Task. The model used 149M output tokens to run the Intelligence Index, ~11% fewer than GLM-5.3 at 168M, but more than Kimi K3 (133M) and Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B (136M) which score the same on the Intelligence Index. Reasoning tokens account for 134M of the 149M total (~90%). ➤ GLM-5.3-Flash matches GLM-5.3 on real-world agentic work on GDPval-AA v2. With an Elo of 1770, the model is tied within the margin of error for GLM-5.3 and Grok 4.6. This places it behind only Claude Opus 5 (xhigh and max). On Terminal-Bench v2.1 it also matches GLM-5.3 (84.3% vs 83.9%), and on τ³-Banking it trails by 3.1 p.p. at 47.2%. ➤ GLM-5.3-Flash demonstrates good real-world knowledge and hallucination rate, scoring +7 on AA-Omniscience. Its AA-Omniscience Accuracy is 28%, 6 p.p. below GLM-5.3 (max) at 34% and well below GPT-5.6 Terra at 47%. However, with a Hallucination Rate of 28%, it is an improvement over GLM-5.3 at 30%. In real-world knowledge, GLM-5.3-Flash knows less than the bigger models and frontier proprietary models in its Intelligence Index tier with an accuracy of 28%. Additional model details: ➤ Pricing: On Z AI's first-party API, $0.15 / 1M input tokens and $0.50 / 1M output tokens . Cached input tokens are priced at $0.03/ 1M tokens, an 80% discount. ➤ Accessibility: Accessible through Z AI's first-party API at launch. ➤ Size: 320B total parameters with 18B active parameters ➤ License: MIT ➤ Context Window: 400k

⚡Meet Qwen3.8-Flash, a multimodal MoE and an early preview of the Qwen4 architecture, now open-weight! The production version Qwen3.8-Flash will be available soon via QwenCloud API at just $ 0.16/1M input tokens and $ 0.47/1M output tokens. 125B parameters + 51B N-gram embeddings, with just 6B activated per token. Unmatched cost-efficiency. What's new: 🥳 - Next architecture: GDN + QSA hybrid attention, Gated Residual, N-gram Embedding & Muon optimizer, serving as a precursor to the architecture used in Qwen4. - Dramatically lower training and inference costs: trained at just 1/9 the cost of Qwen3.7-Plus, while outperforming it across the board with especially strong gains in coding and office tasks. - Strong performance: scoring 58.7 on DeepSWE 1.1, 62.5 on SWE-bench Pro, 73.9 on CoWorkBench, 84.5 on AndroidWorld, and 95.7 on MathVision (with CI). - 262K native context, extensible to 1M with YaRN. We’re also releasing the weights for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, giving the community an early look at the new architecture we’re exploring for Qwen4.🚀 We can't wait to see what you build with Qwen3.8-Flash!👀👇 - Blog: qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8-flas… - Technical Report: github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3.8-Fl… - Hugging Face: huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-… - ModelScope: modelscope.cn/models/Qwen/Qw…

Aloha! 🌺Introducing Ornith-1.5, a family of open-source LLMs spanning 9B Dense, 35B MoE, and 397B MoE, trained with self-improving strategies. It achieves state-of-the-art performance among open-source models of comparable size and delivers performance comparable to Claude Opus 4.8 across reasoning, agentic, and coding tasks: ✅Terminal-Bench 2.1 (86.1) ✅SWE-Bench (86 on verified, 65.1 on pro, 79.6 on Multilingual) ✅DeepSWE (56) ✅HLE (44.6) ✅ClawEval (81.4) ✅Tool Decathlon (71.2) Ornith-1.5 takes a major step toward training foundation models through end-to-end self-improvement, extending the self-scaffolding strategies introduced in Ornith-1.0 into a more complete self-improvement loop: the model proposes new tasks, generates task-specific scaffolds, and produces solution rollouts for reinforcement learning, continuously creating new learning experiences from which it can improve. All models, along with their quantized versions (FP8, GGUF, MLX, and NVFP4), have been released under the MIT License, enabling unrestricted commercial and research use. 📘Tech Blog: ornith.ai/ornith_1_5.html 🤗Huggingface: huggingface.co/collections/o…

Delivery day at our Microsoft DCs as the first production Vera Rubins arrive. A huge thank you to our partners at @nvidia and our Azure hardware and datacenter teams for all the incredible work that brought us to this milestone!