Ever since the company went public, they’ve been making a lot of changes that clearly seem to be prioritizing profit without regard to their customers. For example, with their coding plans:
- They promised/advertised that the Lite coding plan would always have the most up-to-date models, but then silently omitted GLM-5 from the plan.
- They’ve raised prices twice without any accompanying announcement or acknowledgement. Their latest price increase plops them in the range of Anthropic/OpenAI’s subscription plans.
- They abruptly and silently backtracked on a policy that allowed subscribers to use their subscription for coding tools of their choice, and are now even trying to gaslight you into believing their own documentation doesn’t say you can (it still says so)!
Furthermore, they stopped releasing their base models. GLM-4.7-Flash and GLM-5 do not have an accompanying base model release.
Looking at this trajectory, I fully expect that they will stop releasing their top models as open-weight soon enough (if not with their next launch). Whatever new management they onboarded seems more than willing to destroy any goodwill towards the company.
And it clearly doesn’t have to be this way! Looking at MoonshotAI and MiniMax, who are both in similar positions, they haven’t abruptly screwed over their customers and—get this—actually communicate. It’s fair-game to make business decisions to turn a profit, but there’s no reason it has to be done like a douchebag.
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