Z.ai GLM 5.3 now available on Amazon Bedrock
Z.ai's GLM 5.3 is now available on Amazon Bedrock. The 753B-parameter mixture-of-experts model targets coding and long-horizon agentic tasks. AWS says users can invoke it through OpenAI-compatible APIs, reduce cost and latency with prompt caching, and run an authorized security test using the open-source Strix agent.
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