Domestic large models continue to snipe GPT/Opus. GLM-5.3 will be released soon: Epic Plus upgrade

Kuai Technology reported on August 6 that following Kimi K3 and DeepSeek V4 Flash-0731, domestic large models will soon usher in a new round of upgrades. This time it is Zhipu, and the GLM-5.3 large model will soon come out. In fact, GLM-5.3 was leaked two days ago. It briefly appeared on GitHub and Zhipu official website, but was quickly removed from the shelves, which means that Zhipu is ready and is just waiting for the release opportunity. This afternoon, when responding to netizens on X, Tang Jie, the founder of Zhipu, also confirmed again that GLM-5.3 will be released soon. However, the specific timetable was not given. I only know that it will be soon. It was once said that GLM-5.3 would be renamed GLM-5.5, but now it seems that it will continue to be upgraded along the name of GLM-5.2. There is not a big jump, but the upgrade range this time will not be small. Tang Jie mentioned before that the upgrade range of the new version is epic plus, and the expectations are very high. Zhipu launched GLM-5.2 on June 13 this year. At that time, it was not only the strongest open source large model of Zhipu, but also the first domestic large model to reach the US cutting-edge large model in terms of programming capabilities. It currently scores 52 points in artificial analysis, slightly ahead of V4 Flash among domestic models, and lower than Kimi K3. Calculated according to the improvement of epic plus, if GLM-5.3 can be improved by about 5 points, it will reach the level of K3. If the performance is improved by far more than 5 points, it can snipe GPT-5.6 and Opus 5. Considering that GLM-5.3 is said to increase the number of parameters from more than 740 billion in GLM-5.2 to more than one trillion, and coupled with Zhipu's recognized strong post-training capabilities, there is still hope for GLM-5.3 to hit 60 points. As for the specific release time, I personally guess that Zhipu may be waiting for the official version of DeepSeek V4 Pro to make the move first, because on the day V4 Flash-0731 was released, Zhipu announced a big price increase for GLM-5.2, and the subscription price increased two or three times, which was directly replaced by the super cost-effective V4 Flash