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AGI Dreams Podcast – August 14, 2026

GLM-5.3 and the Espresso-Shot Frontier

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GLM-5.3 and the Espresso-Shot Frontier — Z.ai released GLM-5.3, squeezing major coding and cybersecurity gains from post-training alone on the same 743B base. Its cyber capabilities, including chaining multi-stage exploitation plans, scored highest on CyberGym, raising sharp questions about open-weight model credentialing and tool permissions.

The Open-Weight Map, Redrawn Again — Hugging Face's summer 2026 report finds Chinese labs consistently releasing larger, more permissively licensed open models than American…

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