GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability

Posted by pretext 12/22/2025

GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability(z.ai)

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DeathArrow 12/23/2025|

I started to love cheap and fast models from China as they provide a lot of bang for the buck.

jared0x90 12/23/2025||

Out of curiosity is there a reason nobody seems to be trying it with factory.ai's Droid in these comments? Droid BYOK + GLM4.7 seems like a really cost effective backup in the little bit I have experimented with it.

embedding-shape 12/23/2025|

I don't know, never heard of factory.ai, but out of other curiosity, is there a particular reason you haven't commented since 2018/2019 but suddenly you're the second comment in all of HNs history to mention factory.ai in a comment?

swyx 12/23/2025||

> Preserved Thinking: In coding agent scenarios, GLM-4.7 automatically retains all thinking blocks across multi-turn conversations, reusing the existing reasoning instead of re-deriving from scratch. This reduces information loss and inconsistencies, and is well-suited for long-horizon, complex tasks.

does it NOT already do this? i dont see the difference. the image doesnt show any before/after so i dont see any difference

tonyhart7 12/22/2025||

less than 30 bucks for entire year, insanely cheap

(I know that people must pay it on privacy) but still for maybe playing around with still worth it imo

sumedh 12/23/2025|

Are you saying the reason they are offering it so cheap is because they are training on user data?

gunalx 12/23/2025|||

They say they dont train on your inputs. But their tos dosent prevent them from doing that.

My guess is they do train on slightly altered/obfuscated user data.

tonyhart7 12/23/2025|||

their model are cheap to run but not cheap $30 bucks a year

so yeah its both

XCSme 12/22/2025||

Funny how they didn't include Gemini 3.0 Pro in the bar chart comparison, considering that it seems to do the best in the table view.

jychang 12/22/2025||

Also, funny how they included GPT-5.0 and 5.1 but not 5.2... I'm pretty sure they ran the benchmarks for 5.0, then 5.1 came out, so they ran the benchmarks for 5.1... and then 5.2 came out and they threw their hands up in the air and said "fuck it".

rynn 12/22/2025|||

gpt-5.2 codex isn't available in the API yet.

If you want to be picky they could've compared it against gpt-5 pro gpt-5.2 gpt-5.1 gpt-5.1-codex-max gpt-5.2 pro

all depending on when they ran benchmarks (unless, of course, they are simply copying OAI's marketing).

At some point it's enough to give OAI a fair shot and let OAI come out with their own PR, which they doubtlessly will.

XCSme 12/22/2025||||

I didn't even notice that, I assumed it was the latest GPT version.

amelius 12/22/2025|||

after or before running the benchmarks?

guluarte 12/22/2025|||

Gemini is garbage and does it's own thing most of the time ignoring the instructions

larodi 12/22/2025||

From my limited exposure to these models, they seem very very very promising.

Alifatisk 12/23/2025||

Can't wait for the benchmarks at artifical analysis

pbiggar 12/23/2025||

Looking forward to getting these new models on Thaura.

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