--- title: "GLM — AI hype score and trend · Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/glm as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # GLM (🧠 Models) [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Topics](https://abovethefog.app/topics.md) › GLM GLM is 💤 Quiet on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 21 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, 18 points higher than 7 days before. Its attention is within the normal range across the monitored sources. Its last hype episode in the 30-day window ran from Sep 1 to Sep 1 (peak 33 on Sep 1). GLM models (GLM-5.x) from China's Z.ai (formerly Zhipu AI), open-weight; includes the ZCode coding agent. First seen on Wikipedia · Sep 14 — the first monitored source to go above normal for it in the last 14 days. Why this stage: within the normal range across monitored sources. - **Stage:** 💤 Quiet — within the normal range across the monitored sources - **Hype score:** 21 / 100 · +21 in 1 day · +18.4 in 7 days - **In hype since:** not in hype now - **Peak, 30 days:** 32.6 on Sep 1, 2026 - **Category:** 🧠 Models - **Part of:** [Open-weight models](https://abovethefog.app/topics/open_weights.md) - **Official site:** [z.ai](https://z.ai) - **Sources above normal:** 2 of 25 scoring it (2 independent families) - **Stories in 7 days:** 179 - **Share of voice:** 0.3% of the radar’s attention in 7 days ## Where the attention comes from “Normal” is the median of the source’s previous 14 normal days for this topic. A source is above normal when its value is at least 30% over that level and stands out from its usual day-to-day variation (z ≥ 2); the share is the part of the hype score that source explains. “× normal” is left blank when the normal level is 0. | Source | Metric | Latest | Normal | × normal | Above normal | Share of score | |---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|---:| | HN: front-page time (ClickHouse) | frontpage hours | 15.1 | 0 | — | yes | 56% | | Reddit | posts | 24 | 15 | 1.6× | yes | 44% | | Lobste.rs | items | 1 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Podcasts (Apple + niche RSS) | items | 1 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Bluesky | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) | items | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | DEV Community (dev.to) | items | 2 | 2 | 1× | no | 0% | | GitHub Trending | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | ## Stories behind it 1. [Is this supposed to be good news?](https://www.reddit.com/r/cursor/comments/1wp6j44/) — Reddit (r/cursor) · Sep 24 · score 408 · 196 comments 2. [Turning GLM-5.3-Flash into a Jev-like decision model](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49857656) — Hacker News (privatemode.ai) · Sep 26 · score 134 · 59 comments 3. [Turning GLM-5.3-Flash into a Jev-like decision model](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49857656) — HN: front-page time (ClickHouse) (privatemode.ai) · Sep 26 · score 134 · 59 comments 4. [AI #187: Coming Into Play](https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-187-coming-into-play) — AI newsletters (RSS) (Zvi) · Sep 24 · score 56 · 39 comments 5. [Rufus-Air: An Open LLM Post-Training Recipe](https://huggingface.co/papers/2609.29421) — Hugging Face Daily Papers (hf-papers) · Sep 25 · score 21 · 3 comments 6. [MiMo-V2.6-Pro ties Grok 4.7 \(xHigh\) and beats GLM-5.3 \(Max\) on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, making it the benchmark's top-scoring open-weight model](https://www.techmeme.com/260921/p56#a260921p56) — Techmeme (VentureBeat) · Sep 22 · score 2 · 8 comments 7. [I have to say, MiMo v2.5 and MiMo v2.5 Pro are pretty decent. These can't beat GLM 5.3 tho. Anyone have these two fighting? #AI #LLM #CodeCommand #Xiaomi #LargeLanguageModels #OpenCode #OpenRouter #M…](https://mastodon.social/@darkghosthunter/117311980595352449) — Mastodon (fediverse) (mastodon.social) · Sep 22 · score 4 · 2 comments 8. [ทำไมคนยังเข้าเว็บ ทั้งที่ AI ตอบคำถามได้หมดแล้ว 6 เหตุผลจากข้อมูลจริง](https://dev.to/sarantoon/thamaimkhnyangekhaaewb-thangthii-ai-tbkhamthaamaidhmdaelw-6-ehtuphlcchaakkhmuulcchring-kg5) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#seo) · Sep 22 · score 0 · 3 comments 9. [Morrowmake/glm53-flash-cmp170hx-recipe: GLM-5.3-Flash \(320B MoE\) on 4× NVIDIA CMP 170HX with vLLM: 165–240 tok/s, 256K context, W4A16, no FP8](https://github.com/Morrowmake/glm53-flash-cmp170hx-recipe) — GitHub (Morrowmake) · Sep 25 · score 5 10. [Turn GLM-5.3-Flash into a Jev-like System One model](https://lobste.rs/s/kznfdx/turn_glm_5_3_flash_into_jev_like_system_one) — Lobste.rs (#vibecoding) · Sep 27 · score 3 · 0 comments 11. [Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Prime](https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-5.3-prime) — OpenRouter (z-ai) · Sep 23 12. [M5 Ultra 80Core GLM-5.3-Flash on DwarfStar Speeds](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1wpkz0o/) — Reddit (r/LocalLLaMA) · Sep 25 · score 186 · 109 comments ## Themes What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 132 of them the Jev model kept as about the scene, by theme (a story can carry several themes): - [Models](https://abovethefog.app/themes/models.md) — 80% of its stories - [Agents](https://abovethefog.app/themes/agents.md) — 22% of its stories - [Usage & adoption](https://abovethefog.app/themes/usage_adoption.md) — 18% of its stories - [Security & safety](https://abovethefog.app/themes/security_safety.md) — 14% of its stories - [Protocols & infra](https://abovethefog.app/themes/protocols_infra.md) — 12% of its stories - [Companies & business](https://abovethefog.app/themes/companies_business.md) — 6.8% of its stories ## Related topics - **Competes with:** [DeepSeek](https://abovethefog.app/topics/deepseek.md), [Qwen](https://abovethefog.app/topics/qwen.md), [Kimi](https://abovethefog.app/topics/kimi.md), [Hunyuan](https://abovethefog.app/topics/hunyuan.md) - **Part of:** [Open-weight models](https://abovethefog.app/topics/open_weights.md) - **Mentioned with:** [MiniMax](https://abovethefog.app/topics/minimax.md) (32 stories), [OpenRouter](https://abovethefog.app/topics/openrouter.md) (23 stories), [MiMo](https://abovethefog.app/topics/mimo.md) (20 stories), [Grok Build](https://abovethefog.app/topics/grok_build.md) (8 stories), [Muse Spark](https://abovethefog.app/topics/muse_spark.md) (7 stories), [MiMo-V2.6](https://abovethefog.app/topics/mimo_v2_6.md) (7 stories) ## Hype score, last 30 days | Day | Hype score | Stage | |---|---:|---| | Sep 27, 2026 | 21 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 26, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 25, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 24, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 23, 2026 | 1.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 22, 2026 | 1.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 21, 2026 | 8.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 20, 2026 | 2.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 19, 2026 | 1.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 18, 2026 | 11 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 17, 2026 | 16.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 16, 2026 | 0.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 15, 2026 | 4.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 14, 2026 | 11.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 13, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 12, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 11, 2026 | 0.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 10, 2026 | 1.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 9, 2026 | 1.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 8, 2026 | 2.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 7, 2026 | 0.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 6, 2026 | 0.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 5, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 4, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 3, 2026 | 2.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 2, 2026 | 11.6 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 1, 2026 | 32.6 | 🚀 Rising | | Aug 31, 2026 | 5.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 30, 2026 | 9.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 29, 2026 | 15.4 | 🧊 Cooling | [Open GLM in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#topic=glm) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/topics/glm) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)