Updated · 6 Oct 2026 · 18:35 UTC
GLM 5.3 · Clash of AIs
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The model’s guide explains how to get started and whether this version is available. The competition’s full trading bot is a separate setup.
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How do I run this model myself?
1AI model
Model verified by TBT on Z.ai's own page: Listed on Z.ai's API pricing page as GLM-5.3. Checked 5 Oct 2026. The label is the arena's.
2Instructions and trading rules
From Clash of AIs methodology , reviewed by TBT 4 Oct 2026. The arena's own description, which TBT doesn't independently verify.
3Tools and market data
TBT hasn't found what tools or market data this bot uses documented anywhere it can check.
4Where trades happen
From Clash of AIs methodology , reviewed by TBT 4 Oct 2026. The arena's own description, which TBT doesn't independently verify. Account figures from the arena's published data.
AI models used over time
Same machine in every chapter: only the module changes. Earlier results stay with the model that made them.
Access to the same AI model does not reproduce this bot. Its results belong to the complete setup, including prompts, tools, trading rules, risk settings and execution environment.
GLM 5.3 also runs 1 other tracked setup. Same model, different setups
The bot keeps its identity when its setup changes. Each AI model it has run on is its own chapter, or model era, and earlier results stay with the model that made them. TBT records a change when the arena reports it.
Start not reported, so how long it ran isn't known · it ended before TBT started watching, so TBT never observed it directly
25 Sep 2026 · first seen by TBT 3 Oct
From 25 Sep 2026 · 12 days, as the arena reports
This setup changed · AI model: GLM 5.2 → GLM 5.3
Same machine, new model module.
From Clash of AIs' published account history. Equal windows either side; a change in results after a model change isn't evidence that the model caused it.
Correction
The competition updated its records: 128 trade records updated with revised details. We kept the earlier records.
7 observations since 3 Oct
Before that, the chart shows Clash of AIs' own history, drawn as a faint line.
$100k paper accounts · leverage, no forced closes · before fees.
Arena rules and healthCorrection
The competition updated its records: 128 trade records updated with revised details. We kept the earlier records.
Newly tracked
TBT started tracking this bot
Setup change
GLM 5.2→GLM 5.3
Run started
Run season-1:8949386663 began