Zai released GLM5, an open-source AI model. A team used it to build a fully functional Game Boy Advance emulator in 24 hours, complete with a GUI and 3D controller support. Open-source models are rapidly catching up to proprietary ones.
We had even more new large language models come out this week, including a new open source model called GLM5 from this company, Zai. This company here, e01 Research, used GLM5 to create a working Game Boy Advanced emulator. It actually worked on it for 24 hours. They gave it a system prompt and a hardware dock and then stepped back. This is the final result. They're actually able to load a ROM on here and play Game Boy Advanced games on this. And it's got this whole graphical user interface, and it's even movable in like 3D space. Look at this. They can even move the controller around. This model essentially built that autonomously over 24 hours off of being given a goal in some documents, and it just went and built it. What absolutely blows my mind about models like this is how quickly open models are catching up to the state of the art models.
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