GLM vs Qwen

GLM and Qwen side by side on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar, on Oct 29, 2026: GLM is 💤 Quiet with a hype score of 2 and Qwen is 🚀 Rising with 42. 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, GLM is the solid line and Qwen 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 — 100% of GLM’s stories, 87% of Qwen’s
• Security & safety — 13% of GLM’s stories, 8.9% of Qwen’s
• Agents — 6.7% of GLM’s stories, 11% of Qwen’s
• Policy & macro — 6.7% of GLM’s stories, 2.2% of Qwen’s

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

Qwen: stories behind it

1. Someone built a 32-bit RISC-V CPU directly inside Qwen's model weights so it can execute instructions internaly! — Reddit (r/LocalLLaMA) · Oct 28 · score 936 · 140 comments
2. Qwen4 1M context window — Reddit (r/LocalLLaMA) · Oct 29 · score 526 · 221 comments
3. Qwenputer: A functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5 — Hacker News (divagr.com) · Oct 29 · score 690 · 145 comments
4. Used Qwen 3.8 flash next on underspeced PC to Root and gut LG TV of spy and adware — Reddit (r/LocalLLaMA) · Oct 28 · score 186 · 33 comments
5. Qwen has alter egos triggered by flipping a single neuron — Hacker News (qwen-neurons-site.vercel.app) · Oct 27 · score 60 · 60 comments

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