This article left me with one immediate question: "WTF is GLM?".

Honestly, I have no idea what z.ai is either (I'm aware of an AI-enabled editor called Zed, but that's under zed.dev), so it's a bit presumptuous from them to assume that everyone is familiar with their product...

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jbonatakis 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

z.ai is a fairly well known AI lab out of China and their GLM models are probably the most popular outside of Anthropic or OpenAI’s. I don’t think it’s presumptuous for them to not introduce themselves in a post on their own blog, I think you’re just a bit out of the loop here.

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bogdan 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I don't get the outrage. Do you post this kind of stuff on every topic on hackernews that you are not knowledgeable about?

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rob74 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Maybe my post sounded harsher than I intended, and yeah, it's probably on me that I'm not familiar with GLM. Actually the other major Chinese LLM Kimi does ring a bell, maybe it's because three-letter acronyms are a dime a dozen and annoy me because I'm confronted with them regularly at work too (people at my company seem to love acronyms), but that's obviously on me too...

	▲	bogdan 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> Maybe my post sounded harsher than I intended Appreciate the clarification. For me it was the "F" in "WTF" that tipped me. Other than that, it's more than fair for you to not know what GLM is. Things are moving so fast that I would be surprised if anyone can keep track of it all. Cheers, have a grand day!
	▲	tokai 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It didn't read as harsh. Only unaware and you broadcasted that you don't have the decency to do basic searches.

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fxwin 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's presumptuous for them to assume that a reader of their blog is familiar with their product?

Also I feel like the obvious way to read the very first sentence is that GLM is a language model

> As we develop GLM, the model sometimes exhibits capabilities that surprise us

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peri-cl 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's only the top open-weights LLM in the world,

https://artificialanalysis.ai/#intelligence-category-tabs

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HarHarVeryFunny 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Ziphu, aka Z.ai, is the company that makes GLM (a very competitive Chinese LLM).

Why would you be reading their corporate blog posts if you don't even know who they are?!

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Mashimo 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A ai model family similar to Codex, Gemini or Claude.

Where GLM-5.3-Flash is the newest "small / fast" model.

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drbscl 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>As we develop GLM, the model sometimes exhibits capabilities that surprise us, and even unsettle us.

Come on now

Also, why would they introduce themselves on their own blog?