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18B Awake, $0.045 a Task: The Cheap Model That Beat Claude on the Agentic Loop

A model with 320 billion parameters just scored 48.8 on AutomationBench — ahead of Claude Opus 4.8 (41.0) and GPT-5.6 Terra (37.2) — while costing one-tenth of its flagship sibling's price. Z.ai's GLM-5.3-Flash is the strongest single datapoint yet for the cost-collapse thesis: frontier-class intel…

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  1. 2026-10-12 16:00 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    18B Awake, $0.045 a Task: The Cheap Model That Beat Claude on the Agentic Loop

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