Revolut says self-hosted GLM models cut its AI coding inference costs about 90%, replacing Claude Code and Codex as default
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- 4 November 2026
Your AI and this story
- GPT-6 Astra187 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.5126 days after its cutoff
- Gemini 4 Argon217 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7156 days after its cutoff
None of these four assistants can know about it. The closest, Claude Opus 5.5, stops 126 days before it.
Key facts
- GLM-5.1 then GLM-5.3, on 56 Nvidia B200 GPUs
- ~2,000 engineers
- Self-hosting cost about a tenth of Codex or Claude Code
- HN: 190 points
What happened
Revolut’s engineering lead said: “We were highly skeptical about the cost of AI.” A large Western bank-like firm standardising on a Chinese open-weight model is a notable adoption signal.
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Press
- The Register: Revolut slashes AI coding costs 10x by going self-hostedtheregister.com, press
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