The newest GLM model is GLM-5.3, released on August 14, 2026. It has been 57 days since then and the line's usual gap is 62 days, so by its own rhythm the next GLM model is due.
How long it has been since the last release against the line's usual gap and its recent ones — the rhythm, not a date.
Every Monday, only when something shipped: the AI models that came out, what each one changed, and which lines are due next.
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Newest first — what each version changed versus the one before, in Z.ai's own numbers.
GLM-5.3 keeps GLM-5.2's base model and API price but, after more post-training, completes 28.3% of Terminal-Bench 3.0 tasks instead of 4.6% and 66.9% of DeepSWE v1.1 tasks instead of 46.2%.
Compared with GLM-5.2 · the model it replaces
Completes 28% of very hard command-line coding tasks, up from under 5%
Terminal-Bench 3.0 — hard multi-step jobs in a computer terminal
28.3%
▲ up from 4.6% · +23.7 points
Scores 11 points higher than GLM-5.2 on an independent intelligence test
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3.2 — one score averaging 10 hard tests
45
▲ up from 34 · +11 points
Costs developers the same as GLM-5.2
Price per 1M tokens — what developers pay, input / output
$1.40 / $4.40
same as GLM-5.2