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How GLM built its own inference infrastructure

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rob74 · 1789641312 · focus · HN ↗
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...
1. fxwin · 1789641596 · focus · HN ↗
  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
2. jbonatakis · 1789641656 · focus · HN ↗
  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.
  1. ma2kx · 1789669481 · focus · HN ↗
    And honestly that's for a reason. GLM5.3 on max has in my experience far less hallucinations than any other open weights model and it feels it has some intuition to bring in the right information when it's in principle out of context but relevant to the topic. Like its goal is more to bring value and assist you than just solving the given task with the least token spent.
3. drbscl · 1789641666 · focus · HN ↗
  >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?
4. Mashimo · 1789642019 · focus · HN ↗
  A ai model family similar to Codex, Gemini or Claude.
  Where GLM-5.3-Flash is the newest "small / fast" model.
  1. 0x457 · 1789677533 · focus · HN ↗
    Except there is no ai model family called Codex or Claude. There is Gemini, I give you that.
5. peri-cl · 1789642522 · focus · HN ↗
  It's only the top open-weights LLM in the world,
  <a href="https://artificialanalysis.ai/#intelligence-category-tabs" rel="nofollow">https://artificialanalysis.ai/#intelligence-category-tabs
6. bogdan · 1789644322 · focus · HN ↗
  I don't get the outrage. Do you post this kind of stuff on every topic on hackernews that you are not knowledgeable about?
  1. rob74 · 1789645114 · focus · HN ↗
    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...
    tokai · 1789646026 · focus · HN ↗
    It didn't read as harsh. Only unaware and you broadcasted that you don't have the decency to do basic searches.
    bogdan · 1789651044 · focus · HN ↗
    > 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!
7. HarHarVeryFunny · 1789647260 · focus · HN ↗
  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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