DeepSeek vs GLM

DeepSeek and GLM side by side on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar, on Oct 29, 2026: DeepSeek is 💤 Quiet with a hype score of 12 and GLM is 💤 Quiet with 2. The radar’s curated relations list them as competitors.

Data note: 7 of the last 14 days were not collected live. No collection ran on Oct 22–Oct 28, or a later run refilled those days at once. Every hype score is measured against the 14 days before it and those days are thin, so the scores, the stages and the week-over-week theme trends may read higher than they are until they leave that window on Nov 12.

At a glance

Hype score, last 30 days

Both hype scores by day, newest first; on the page’s chart, DeepSeek is the solid line and GLM the dashed one.

Shared themes

What the stories of both topics in the last 7 days are about, as classified by the Jev model (a story can carry several themes):

• Models — 77% of DeepSeek’s stories, 100% of GLM’s
• Security & safety — 9.1% of DeepSeek’s stories, 13% of GLM’s
• Agents — 27% of DeepSeek’s stories, 6.7% of GLM’s
• Protocols & infra — 12% of DeepSeek’s stories, 6.7% of GLM’s

DeepSeek: stories behind it

1. DeepSeek V5 spotted in DeepSeek Harness tests — are we getting closer to a release? — Reddit (r/DeepSeek) · Oct 28 · score 436 · 26 comments
2. DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 at 41 tok/s on one 3090 — Reddit (r/LocalLLaMA) · Oct 28 · score 154 · 107 comments
3. Deepseek 4.1 Flash 1017 is the highest ranking open weights model on FrontierCode 2.0, a private benchmark. Its ahead of Kimi K3.1 Pro, & Gemini Argon — Reddit (r/DeepSeek) · Oct 28 · score 153 · 17 comments
4. CrowdStrike: China-linked hackers used AI tool ARTEX with a DeepSeek LLM and another model to target 200+ organizations in 11 days, compromising at least nine — Techmeme (NBC News) · Oct 30 · score 4 · 5 comments
5. DeepSeek reportedly raises $15B days after US restrictions — Hacker News (techcrunch.com) · Oct 27 · score 4 · 1 comment

GLM: stories behind it

1. Mistral releases the weights for Mistral Large 4, or Le Chonk, and says it rivals top open models such as GLM-5.3 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index — Techmeme (ZDNET) · Oct 29
2. GLM-5.3 Sometimes Considers How Train-Time Actions Shape Future Behavior — Hacker News (lesswrong.com) · Oct 27 · score 2 · 0 comments
3. Claude vs. DeepSeek vs. GLM: what coding agents pick — Hacker News (whatagentspick.com) · Oct 27 · score 2 · 0 comments
4. I pulled current per-1M prices for Claude / GPT / Gemini / GLM / Kimiacross the official APIs and 6 resellers. The spread is bigger than I expected. — Reddit (r/LLMDevs) · Oct 29
5. Research: Matching Claude Code + Sonnet 5.5 design quality with DeepSeek/GLM Flash models and a custom harness — Reddit (r/LocalLLaMA) · Oct 29

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