Four Chinese Frontier Models in Under a Month: Kimi K3-2.8T, Qwen3.8-2.4T, DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813-1.6T, GLM-5.3-743B
r/LocalLLaMA (release cadence corroborated by Nikkei Asia)·medium signal
An r/LocalLLaMA post cataloguing the release cadence — Kimi K3 at 2.8T parameters, Qwen3.8 at 2.4T, DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 at 1.6T and GLM-5.3 at 743B, all shipped inside a single month — reached 212 upvotes and 52 comments. Nikkei Asia reported on 2026-08-15 that Z.ai is positioning GLM-5.3 as a direct rival to Anthropic's Mythos on coding and security. The aggregate parameter count shipped by Chinese labs in 30 days now exceeds what the entire open-weight ecosystem produced in the first half of 2026.