[AINews] Death of Params: Z.ai CEO Jie Tang on GLM 5.3 and the new Post-training Scaling Law
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Why it matters
Model size is still the default shorthand for capability, and this lays out why that shorthand now misleads when picking a model to build on. The GLM-5.3 detail also shows long-horizon RL environments, not scale, driving the current jump in engineering task performance.
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inference — Running a trained model to get answers — the phase where AI is actually used, as opposed to trained.