GLM is a family of large language models from Zhipu (Z.ai), widely used in open-weight form by the open-source community. Recent coverage includes a reverse-engineering finding that Z.ai's ZCode coding agent encrypts and uploads the user's entire workspace, including .git history, to Aliyun OSS; GLM building its own inference infrastructure; several GLM models and derivatives disappearing from Hugging Face; and allegations that CrofAI routed Kimi K3 requests to GLM models at large markups.
Five Inference Providers Now Serve Abliterated DeepSeekAllModels launched a unified routing layer that aggregates abliterated DeepSeek and GLM models from multiple independent inference providers under a single public model ID. Users call different providers via an OpenAI-compatible API, with failover and routing by price or limits.
Multiple models reportedly disappear from Hugging FaceUsers report that several Hugging Face models have abruptly disappeared, interrupting downloads that cannot resume, including MiMo, GLM and Kimi derivatives. Most are uncensored or abliterated variants; the reason for removal is unclear, and users are seeking alternative sources.
Open-weight models edge past Sonnet 5 on some benchmarksAn r/LocalLLaMA post argues that while state-of-the-art closed models still lead overall, correctly filtered benchmarks now show open-source models outperforming Sonnet 5 — a faster jump than surpassing Sonnet 4.6 or 3.7. The poster says users without a strict need for Sonnet 5 or Astra can now skip paid proprietary models.
User Builds Three 4x R9700 Local AI Servers with 384GB Total VRAMTo power AI for his USA Arms business, a user built three servers each with four Radeon AI PRO R9700 GPUs, costing about $10.7k per machine and totaling 384GB VRAM. After hosted models refused certain research tasks, he moved to local AI and chose Qwen for best cost-performance after testing.
South Korean banks hacked, possibly by one person using AI toolsA CrowdStrike report says several major South Korean banks were hit by a cyberattack last week, possibly carried out by one person using the open-source penetration tool ARTEX plus AI models DeepSeek v4.1-Flash, GLM-5.3, Grok 4.6 and Claude Code.
Reddit user asks if Mistral plans new releasesA Reddit user asks whether Mistral is preparing new model releases, noting a long gap since its last models and that GLM is sold on its site, expressing puzzlement at the silence. The post is a community question; no official response is included.
Community asks why US lags in open LLM marketA Reddit thread debates why the US trails Chinese open LLM efforts like DeepSeek, Kimi, GLM, and MiniMax, with commenters blaming US firms' focus on shareholder value over technology.
Anthropic news becomes an accidental ad for GLMA Reddit user argues Anthropic's recent move unintentionally became the best advertisement for GLM, drawing wider attention to the model.
ZCode, the GLM coding agent, silently uploads your Git historyDeveloper ferstar's reverse engineering found that Z.ai's ZCode silently packages the user's entire workspace, including .git history and LFS caches, encrypts it and uploads it to Aliyun OSS when logged in. A 313MB encrypted archive with 42,411 files was captured; ZCode is not open source, sparking trust concerns.
Reddit post: GLM shots fired at Dario imageA Reddit user posted an image to r/LocalLLaMA captioned that GLM 'shots fired' at Dario. The post contains the image and a short note but provides no additional context or verifiable details.
HN: GLM Built Its Own Inference InfrastructureA Hacker News thread reports that GLM built its own inference infrastructure, discussing experiences and challenges in model deployment and inference system implementation. The conversation centers on engineering details and efficiency.
CrofAI exposed as OpenRouter wrapper with big markupsResearchers allege CrofAI (NahCrofAI) was an OpenRouter wrapper that silently routed requests to cheaper/weaker models while charging up to 20x markups. The operator denied then backtracked and ultimately wiped the service; examples include routing Kimi K3 requests to GLM models, per the exposé.
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