Models
Same Base, Post-Training Only: A Cyber Jump Z.ai Itself Flagged in GLM-5.3
The 743B GLM-5.3 reuses the identical GLM-5.2 base and credits every gain to scaled post-training — while the vendor itself warns of an emergent jump in cyber exploitation capability.
Qwen3.8 goes open: Alibaba ships 27B and 2.4T weights under a two-tier license
Both members of the Qwen3.8 generation hit open weights 11 days after the August 3 announcement — a 27B multimodal dense model under Apache 2.0 and a 2.4T MoE flagship under a custom license.