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GLM-5.1 takes #1 open-source spot on SWE-Bench Pro at 58.4%
Z.ai released GLM-5.1, now the #1 open-source model on SWE-Bench Pro at 58.4%. It can run autonomously for 8 hours with 1,700+ agent steps, and is already live on W&B Inference. Open weights are up on Hugging Face alongside an arXiv paper.
Z.ai launches GLM-5, the open-weights agentic coding crown
Z.ai released GLM-5, a 744B-parameter MoE model (40B active) trained on 28.5 trillion tokens that takes the #1 open-source ranking for agentic coding with 77.8% SWE-bench Verified. It introduces the SLIM asynchronous RL framework for post-training, adopts DeepSeek's sparse attention to cut deployment cost, and was trained on Huawei chips rather than NVIDIA. Lou from Z.ai joined the show live and summed it up as bigger, faster, better, and cheaper.
Z.ai GLM-OCR: 0.9B model takes #1 on OmniDocBench
Z.ai released GLM-OCR, a tiny 0.9B parameter document understanding model that achieves the #1 ranking on OmniDocBench V1.5. It shows that strong OCR and document parsing no longer require large models.
GLM-4.7-Flash: 30B MoE local coding agent with only 3B active params
Z.AI released GLM-4.7-Flash, a 30B parameter MoE model with only 3B active parameters, designed as the ultimate local coding and agent assistant. It hits 59% on SWE-Bench Verified (approaching Sonnet 4's 64%) and runs at 120 tokens/sec on a stock Mac Studio M3 Ultra, fast enough to run RALF autonomous coding loops even on CPU.
Zhipu AI becomes first major LLM company to IPO, raising $558M
Zhipu AI, the makers of the GLM model family, became the world's first major LLM company to go public, listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and raising $558M. The IPO marks a milestone for Chinese AI labs monetizing frontier model development.
GLM 4.5 runs on Cerebras fast enough to win hackathons
Zhipu's GLM 4.5 came out in July and was the first open model that ran on Cerebras hardware fast enough that hackathon competitors were winning with it. It set up GLM's quiet rise as a business workhorse later in the year.
GLM 4.6 quietly becomes the model businesses actually use
Zhipu's GLM 4.6 arrived in October and, per Nisten, quietly became a go-to model that many businesses still run today. It continued GLM's trajectory from hackathon favorite to production workhorse.
Z.ai (formerly chatGLM) releases the GLM-4-0414 open-source family
Z.ai, the rebranded Zhipu AI / chatGLM team, released the GLM-4-0414 family of open-source models. The drop includes base, reasoning and rumination variants published on Hugging Face and GitHub.
Zhipu AI open-sources CogView 4, a 6B text-to-image model
Zhipu AI released CogView 4, a 6B-parameter open text-to-image model in the CogView family, with code available on GitHub. It is notable as an open-weights image generation option with strong Chinese and English prompt support.
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