DigitalOcean
Z.ai released GLM-5.3 on August 14, 2026, positioning it as a 743B-parameter coding and cyber-defense model under the tagline "Built to Code. Ready for Cyber Defense." The model's official launch chart covers nine benchmarks: Terminal-Bench 3.0, DeepSWE 1.1, CyberGym at 84.5%, AutomationBench at 48.2%, GDPVal-AA v2 at The most circulated headline claim — 73/80 (91.25%) on the KingBench 3 coding and agentic suite, ahead of Fable 5, Qwen 3.8 Max, and Opus 4.8/Opus 5 — is single-sourced to a third-party review and does not appear in Z.ai's own published launch chart, nor in any primary blog post, model card, or independent leaderboard
