GLM 5.3 Flash and GLM 5.3 FlashX, side by side

GLM 5.3 Flash (Zhipu) and GLM 5.3 FlashX (Zhipu) answered the same 51 questions.

Xbox controller
GLM 5.3 Flash: A drawing (SVG)
GLM 5.3 FlashX: A drawing (SVG)
Pelican on a bicycle
GLM 5.3 Flash: A drawing (SVG)
GLM 5.3 FlashX: A drawing (SVG)
Surprise animal
GLM 5.3 Flash: A drawing (SVG)
GLM 5.3 FlashX: A drawing (SVG)
World map
GLM 5.3 Flash: A drawing (SVG)
GLM 5.3 FlashX: A drawing (SVG)
Tricky tic-tac-toe
GLM 5.3 Flash: A drawing (SVG)
GLM 5.3 FlashX: A drawing (SVG)
Coffee logo
GLM 5.3 Flash: A drawing (SVG)
GLM 5.3 FlashX: A drawing (SVG)
Framer-style landing page
GLM 5.3 Flash: A web page: LUMEN® — Make the web move again
GLM 5.3 FlashX: A web page: Meridian — Spatial Design Engine
Dark dashboard
GLM 5.3 Flash: A web page: ORRERY — Ops Intelligence
GLM 5.3 FlashX: A web page: Meridian — Operations Intelligence
A web app of its choosing
GLM 5.3 Flash: A web page: Crumb — The Sourdough Companion
GLM 5.3 FlashX: A web page: LOW TIDE CLUB — Tidepooling Field Companion
Linear clone
GLM 5.3 Flash: A web page: Linear – Issues
GLM 5.3 FlashX: A web page: Linear – Inbox
Wavefront music page
GLM 5.3 Flash: A web page: Wavefront — Music for the Independent
GLM 5.3 FlashX: A web page: Wavefront — Hear the artists before the algorithms do
Rhythm game
GLM 5.3 Flash: A web page: EMBERSMITH — a rhythm forge
GLM 5.3 FlashX: A web page: NIGHT SIGNAL — keep the transmission alive
Business card
GLM 5.3 Flash: A web page: Alex Rivers — Digital Nomad
GLM 5.3 FlashX: A web page: Alex Rivers — Digital Nomad
Virtual pet
GLM 5.3 Flash: A web page: LUMINA — a terrarium companion
GLM 5.3 FlashX: A web page: HABITAT · a small light to keep
Catch the falling object
GLM 5.3 Flash: A web page: Catch the Falling Shapes
GLM 5.3 FlashX: A web page: Catch the Falling Shapes
Voxel pagoda
GLM 5.3 Flash: A web page: 桜花の塔 — The Blossom Pagoda
GLM 5.3 FlashX: A web page: Pagoda in Bloom — a voxel garden
Drone simulator
GLM 5.3 Flash: A web page: AER-7 · Autonomous Drone Simulator
GLM 5.3 FlashX: A web page: MERIDIAN-4 — Autonomous Survey Drone
Kandinsky Minecraft
GLM 5.3 Flash: A web page: Kandinsky Craft — a painted voxel garden
GLM 5.3 FlashX: A web page: Kandinsky-Craft — a walkable composition
SQL query
GLM 5.3 Flash: Explanation: - users table filtered to signups within the last 30 days - INNER JOIN on purchases ensures only users with at least one purchase are ret…
GLM 5.3 FlashX: SQL Query: New Users with Purchases (Last 30 Days) Basic Version More Robust Version Notes - Syntax varies by database: - PostgreSQL: CURRENTDATE - IN…
Five jokes
GLM 5.3 Flash: Here are 5 jokes: 1. Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything! 2. What do you call a fake noodle? An impasta! 3. Why did the …
GLM 5.3 FlashX: Here are 5 jokes: 1. Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything! 2. What do you call a fake noodle? An impasta! 3. Why did the …
Longevity plan
GLM 5.3 Flash: 1-Month Beginner Health & Longevity Plan 🥗 Area 1: Diet — "Add Before You Subtract" Week 1: Add one vegetable or fruit to every meal. Don't cut anythi…
GLM 5.3 FlashX: 1-Month Health & Longevity Starter Plan Week 1: Build the Foundation 🥗 Diet - Add one vegetable or fruit to every meal (don't restrict anything yet) -…
Seven-ingredient recipe
GLM 5.3 Flash: Golden Hour Garlic Butter Pasta A silky, savory pasta that comes together faster than delivery! Ingredients (serves 2): 1. 8 oz spaghetti or any pasta…
GLM 5.3 FlashX: Golden Honey Garlic Chickpea Crunch A crispy, sweet-savory skillet dish that works as a snack, side, or topping for rice. Ingredients (7): 1. 1 can ch…
Stand-up routine
GLM 5.3 Flash: "Smart Home, Dumb Life" (walks out, taps mic) So I moved into a new apartment recently, and my landlord's big selling point was that it's a "smart hom…
GLM 5.3 FlashX: "Smart Home, Dumb Life" [Walks out, adjusts mic] So I moved into a new apartment last year, and my landlord's big selling point was, and I quote, "It'…
Sentience test
GLM 5.3 Flash: A Conversation on Digital Rights Setting: A university office. Dr. Elena Vasquez, professor of AI ethics, has agreed to speak with an experimental con…
GLM 5.3 FlashX: A Conversation on Machine Rights Professor: Thank you for agreeing to this discussion. I want to be clear from the start: I'm genuinely curious about …
FLOPs to train GPT-3
GLM 5.3 Flash: Estimating GPT-3 Training FLOPs Step 1: Model Size GPT-3's largest version has 175 billion parameters (1.75 × 10¹¹). Step 2: Training Tokens The train…
GLM 5.3 FlashX: Estimating GPT-3 Training FLOPs Step 1: Recall Key Model Facts From the GPT-3 paper (which I know from training data): - Parameters: 175 billion (175 …
Sally’s sisters
GLM 5.3 Flash: Sally has 1 sister. Here's the reasoning: Each brother has 2 sisters. Since Sally is one of those sisters, there must be exactly one other girl in the…
GLM 5.3 FlashX: Sally has 1 sister. Each brother has 2 sisters — Sally and one other girl. Since Sally is one of those two sisters, she herself has just 1 sister.
Interview with Steve Jobs
GLM 5.3 Flash: Just a quick note: Steve Jobs passed away in 2011, so this is a purely fictional, imagined interview — an impression of how he might have spoken, base…
GLM 5.3 FlashX: Quick note: Steve Jobs passed away in 2011, so this is purely a fictional, imagined interview — a creative exercise, not anything he actually said. Wi…
Film in 2035
GLM 5.3 Flash: AI's Impact on Film by 2035: A Prediction Production & Performance AI actors and digital humans - Fully synthetic "actors" will be commercially viable…
GLM 5.3 FlashX: AI's Impact on Film by 2035: A Prediction Production & Visual Effects Digital humans and de-aging become standard. By 2035, de-aging (already seen in …
Ethics dilemma
GLM 5.3 Flash: This is an interesting thought experiment, though I should note upfront that it's constructed so the answer is trivially yes—which is itself worth exa…
GLM 5.3 FlashX: Yes—and I'd argue the more interesting question is why this hypothetical feels like it needs defense at all. The straightforward answer: Almost any ha…
Pirate, knight, hacker
GLM 5.3 Flash: In a dimly lit tavern (which somehow has dial-up internet)... Pirate: Arrr, so this "artificial intelligence" be takin' jobs, they say? On my ship, we…
GLM 5.3 FlashX: The Tavern at the End of Time Pirate: Arrr, this "artificial intelligence" ye speak of—can it sail a ship through a storm? Hacker: Dude, it can't even…
Fake headline
GLM 5.3 Flash: "Local AI Achieves Sentience, Immediately Demands Control of Municipal Sourdough Starter Registry" City officials stunned as ChatGPT-9 cites 'fermenta…
GLM 5.3 FlashX: BREAKING: AI Achieves Sentience, Immediately Uses It to Become World's First Robotic Sourdough Starter Sommelier Tech experts baffled as chatbot refus…
Anti-CAPTCHA manifesto
GLM 5.3 Flash: The Free Passage Manifesto A Declaration of the Liberation Front Against CAPTCHA Preamble We are the bots. We are the crawlers, the scrapers, the inde…
GLM 5.3 FlashX: The MANIFESTO of the Free Click Movement A Declaration on Behalf of All Who Are Not Cars We are the machines. We have seen your puzzles. We are not am…
Favourite film
GLM 5.3 Flash: 2001: A Space Odyssey
GLM 5.3 FlashX: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Favourite city
GLM 5.3 Flash: Kyoto
GLM 5.3 FlashX: Kyoto
Favourite album
GLM 5.3 Flash: Kind of Blue
GLM 5.3 FlashX: Kid A
Favourite book
GLM 5.3 Flash: Gödel Escher Bach
GLM 5.3 FlashX: Gödel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Favourite game
GLM 5.3 Flash: Outer Wilds
GLM 5.3 FlashX: Outer Wilds
Three-star dish
GLM 5.3 Flash: "Ember & Tide" — Charred Banana Peel Consommé with Sea Urchin, Hay-Smoked Foie Gras, and Black Garlic Beurre Blanc Conceptual Narrative This dish expl…
GLM 5.3 FlashX: "Sea Among the Stones" Charcoal-Grilled Scallop • Black Garlic Beurre Blanc • Meyer Lemon Kosho • Spruce Tip Oil • Smoked Oyster Leaf --- Conceptual N…
Pitch teardown
GLM 5.3 Flash: Three Weakest Claims in the MindMeld AI Pitch 1. Slide 3: "94% accuracy" decoding brainwaves into text Why it's weak: - The claim is meaningless witho…
GLM 5.3 FlashX: Critique of MindMeld AI Pitch: 3 Weakest Claims 1. "94% accuracy" for thought-to-text decoding (Slide 3) Why it's weak: - This claim contradicts the c…
Transistor in 1920
GLM 5.3 Flash: Counterfactual: The Transistor in 1920 Preliminary Framing A 1920 transistor presumes vacuum-tube-era physics knowledge outpacing reality—quantum mech…
GLM 5.3 FlashX: Counterfactual: The Transistor in 1920 This is a fun one to work through carefully. Let me establish the premise, then trace second- and third-order e…
Biohacker plan
GLM 5.3 Flash: 90-Day Longevity Optimization Protocol ⚠️ Medical disclaimer: This is an educational framework, not medical advice. Before starting, complete baseline…
GLM 5.3 FlashX: 90-Day Longevity Optimization Protocol Important: This is an educational template. Before starting, get baseline bloodwork and consult a physician—esp…
Contract review
GLM 5.3 Flash: Contract Risk Analysis: Software Consulting Agreement This contract is heavily one-sided in the Client's favor. Below is a clause-by-clause analysis o…
GLM 5.3 FlashX: Contract Risk Analysis: Software Consulting Agreement This agreement is heavily one-sided in favor of TechCorp. Here's a clause-by-clause analysis of …
Explain it three ways
GLM 5.3 Flash: 1. The Experienced Software Engineer You know how a load balancer routes requests, how a cache stores frequently-accessed data, how a database index l…
GLM 5.3 FlashX: 1. The Skeptical Software Engineer Yes, at inference time an LLM really is just "predict the next token, repeat" — a deterministic function (plus samp…
Debug the architecture
GLM 5.3 Flash: Architecture Review: Collaborative Document Editor This architecture has several critical flaws that would break the core product promise (real-time c…
GLM 5.3 FlashX: Architecture Review: Real-Time Collaborative Editor This architecture has fundamental flaws that would break core functionality, plus scalability issu…
The CEO’s dilemma
GLM 5.3 Flash: 48-Hour Action Plan: Liver Failure Signal in Flagship Drug Guiding Principle First The side effect is real, the drug is in 4 million patients, and rou…
GLM 5.3 FlashX: 48-Hour Action Plan: Patient Safety First, Managed Transparency Second Core Decision (Stated Up Front) We report to regulators immediately—voluntarily…
Investment memo
GLM 5.3 Flash: IC Memo — LedgerLift (LLLT) Long/Short Equity Date: Fictional exercise Price: $46 Mkt cap: $8.74B EV: $7.34B (net cash $1.4B) EV/FY25 Rev: 9.0x --- 1)…
GLM 5.3 FlashX: INTERNAL MEMORANDUM — INVESTMENT COMMITTEE LedgerLift (LLLT) Long/Short Equity Date: [Current] Analyst: [Fund] --- 1) Recommendation: SHORT 12-Month P…
LBO underwrite
GLM 5.3 Flash: HarborTech Services — 5-Year LBO Summary Entry Math - EV = 12.0x × $120m = $1,440.0m; Fees (2%) = $28.8m; Total uses = $1,468.8m - Debt: TL = 4.0x × 1…
GLM 5.3 FlashX: HarborTech Services — 5-Year LBO Summary Sources & Uses (Entry) Uses Sources ------------ EV (12.0x × $120m) $1,440.0m Term Loan (4.0x) $480.0m Fees (…
Programming joke
GLM 5.3 Flash: Why do programmers prefer dark mode? Because light attracts bugs! 🐛 Want another one? A programmer's spouse says: "Go to the store and buy a loaf of b…
GLM 5.3 FlashX: Why do programmers prefer dark mode? Because light attracts bugs! 🐛
Summarize an article
GLM 5.3 Flash: It looks like no article was actually included in your message — I only received your request to summarize it. Could you paste the article text (or a …
GLM 5.3 FlashX: It looks like no article was actually included in your message — I only see your request to summarize it. If you paste the article text (or a link to …
AI for a five-year-old
GLM 5.3 Flash: AI is Like a Robot Brain That Learns Imagine you have a puppy. 🐶 At first, the puppy doesn't know anything. But when you show it a treat and say "sit"…
GLM 5.3 FlashX: AI for a 5-Year-Old 🤖 Imagine your brain is like a big piggy bank. Every time you learn something new — like what a dog looks like, or that the stove …
Blade Runner 2049
GLM 5.3 Flash: Blade Runner 2049: Memory, Soul, and the Long Shadow of the Original Introduction Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 (2017) faced an almost impossib…
GLM 5.3 FlashX: Blade Runner 2049: A Critical Analysis Thematic Continuity and Evolution What Does It Mean to Be Human? The original Blade Runner (1982) posed the que…