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20 Aug 2026, 1:17 PM	Latent Space	7.5	[AINews] Death of Params: Z.ai CEO Jie Tang on GLM 5.3 and the new Post-training Scaling Law Z.ai CEO Jie Tang argues that parameter count alone is no longer a useful model metric, stating it's only meaningful alongside data volume, compute allocation, and deployment conditions. GLM-5.3's improvements come entirely from RL on long-horizon environments—tasks that simulate days of real engineering work, including diagnosing ML infrastructure bottlenecks and delivering measurable speedups. The entire environment, judging, and verifier process is synthetic end-to-end. Why: If post-training RL on synthetic long-horizon environments is now the primary axis of model improvement, builders should stop benchmarking models by parameter count and start evaluating them on agentic task completion in realistic multi-step workflows. Teams building AI agents should invest in verifiable, executable task environments rather than chasing bigger base models. scaling-laws post-training rl ai-agents open-weights

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[AINews] Death of Params: Z.ai CEO Jie Tang on GLM 5.3 and the new Post-training Scaling Law

Z.ai CEO Jie Tang argues that parameter count alone is no longer a useful model metric, stating it's only meaningful alongside data volume, compute allocation, and deployment conditions. GLM-5.3's improvements come entirely from RL on long-horizon environments—tasks that simulate days of real engineering work, including diagnosing ML infrastructure bottlenecks and delivering measurable speedups. The entire environment, judging, and verifier process is synthetic end-to-end.

Why: If post-training RL on synthetic long-horizon environments is now the primary axis of model improvement, builders should stop benchmarking models by parameter count and start evaluating them on agentic task completion in realistic multi-step workflows. Teams building AI agents should invest in verifiable, executable task environments rather than chasing bigger base models.