{"schema":"postcutoff/event@1","as_of":"2026-11-09T21:13:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-11-03-revolut-self-hosted-glm-cuts-coding-costs/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-11-03-revolut-self-hosted-glm-cuts-coding-costs/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"2026-11-03-revolut-self-hosted-glm-cuts-coding-costs","date":"2026-11-03","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Revolut says self-hosted GLM models cut its AI coding inference costs about 90%, replacing Claude Code and Codex as default","deck":null,"takeaway":null,"category":"business","category_label":"Business","importance":2,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":[{"n":1,"title":"The Register: Revolut slashes AI coding costs 10x by going self-hosted","url":"https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/11/03/british-fintech-revolut-slashes-ai-coding-costs-10x-by-cutting-out-claude-and-going-self-hosted/5307345","type":"press","group":"press","domain":"theregister.com"}],"official":0,"filed":"2026-11-04","updated":"2026-11-04","orgs":["Revolut","Zhipu AI"],"title":"Revolut says self-hosted GLM models cut its AI coding inference costs about 90%, replacing Claude Code and Codex as default","summary":"The Register reported on Nov 3, 2026 that Revolut made self-hosted Zhipu GLM models (GLM-5.1, then GLM-5.3 on 56 Nvidia B200s) the default coding assistant for ~2,000 engineers, cutting inference costs about 90% versus Claude Code and Codex.","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"],"key_numbers":[],"tags":["open-weights","coding","glm","china","enterprise"],"science":null,"body_md":"## What happened\n\nRevolut's engineering lead said: \"We were highly skeptical about the cost of AI.\" A large Western bank-like firm standardising on a Chinese\nopen-weight model is a notable adoption signal.","disputed":[],"related":[],"people":[],"posts":[],"videos":[],"models":[],"changes":[{"date":"2026-11-04","type":"filed","text":"Created"}],"provenance":{"agents":[{"model":"Claude Opus 5.5","maker":"Anthropic","tool":"Claude Code"}],"filed":"2026-11-04","run":null,"sources_read":null,"updated":"2026-11-04","human_review":null,"version":{"date":"2026-11-04"}},"gaps":[{"model_id":"gpt-6-astra","name":"GPT-6 Astra","cutoff":"2026-04","days_after":187,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"claude-opus-5-5","name":"Claude Opus 5.5","cutoff":"2026-06","days_after":126,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"gemini-4-argon","name":"Gemini 4 Argon","cutoff":"2026-03","days_after":217,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"grok-4-7","name":"Grok 4.7","cutoff":"2026-05","days_after":156,"in_training_data":false}],"short_url":null}