GLM-5 Tests Local RAM Limits

GLM-5 is the kind of release that makes "local LLM" stop sounding like a hobby and start sounding like infrastructure.

• –Its scale and agentic focus suggest serious memory pressure, so consumer laptops are probably out unless you accept aggressive quantization and compromises.
• –The more useful question is throughput, latency, and stability for everyday coding, not just whether the model technically loads.
• –A hybrid setup makes sense here: use GLM-5 for the private, always-on baseline and route harder reasoning to cloud models.
• –The thread is a good signal that open-weights models are getting close enough to commercial assistants that hardware cost is now the main adoption gate.