I got an MLX 3bit version of GLM 4.5 Air running on my 64GB Mac and WOW this is an impressive local model!
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SmallThinker: Efficient LLMs for Local Deployment
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SmallThinker A Family of Efficient Large Language Models Natively Trained for Local Deployment
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China’s AI Surge: Open-Source Tools and Video Generation Advances
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Top stories in AI today: – http://
Z.ai’s open-source powerhouse
– Microsoft’s ‘Copilot Mode’ for browsing
– Replace any character voice in your videos
– Wan2.2 pushes video generation forward – 4 new AI tools & 4 job opportunities Read more: https://
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GLM-4.5 Air 3bit MLX runs smoothly on MacBook M2
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I've run the GLM-4.5 Air 3bit MLX build on my 64GB MacBook M2, it's impressed me – it drew me a simpler pelican https://
huggingface.co/mlx-community/
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GLM-4.5 Dominates 12 Major AI Benchmarks Over Competitors
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Benchmarking Brilliance
GLM-4.5 excels across 12 major benchmarks, outperforming competitors like Claude 4 Opus and DeepSeek R1. Its open-source nature and advanced capabilities position it as a formidable force in the AI landscape. -

GLM-4.5 Models Released with MIT License by Zai
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Pretty decent pelicans from the new GLM-4.5 and GLM-4.5 Air models. Both models are MIT licensed, released by @Zai_org this morning https://
simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/28/gl
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Open Source AI Models Show Inconsistent Performance vs DeepSeek
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These new open source models (GLM, Kimi) continue to be odd. Great stats, some solid performances, but also fail tests that DeepSeek & smaller closed models have beaten for months.
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Tencent Releases Hunyuan3D World Model for 3D Generation
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Tencent released Hunyuan3D World Model 1.0, a new open-source world generation model
— The Rundown AI (@TheRundownAI) 28 juillet 2025
It creates interactive, explorable 3D worlds from image or text prompts and is also compatible with CG pipelines for full editability & simulationpic.twitter.com/Px5SIyoDDGTencent released Hunyuan3D World Model 1.0, a new open-source world generation model It creates interactive, explorable 3D worlds from image or text prompts and is also compatible with CG pipelines for full editability & simulation
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China Launches Global AI Action Plan Emphasizing Cooperation
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China released its AI Action Plan, urging global cooperation on inclusive AI, focused on: —Open-source development
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LLM Arena Models Proliferation: Concerns About Score Gaming
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Suddenly there are tons more weird LLM arena models – cuttlefish, kraken, etc. I just hope we are not going to see a repeat of the Llama 4 incident, where different versions of the same model are being tuned to max out the arena score