Zhipu AI (GLM)
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Zhipu AI (GLM) has 128 loaded public signals: 0 hiring, 0 forks, 74 releases or model cards, 0 talking, and 54 repos. Latest signal: zai-org/zcode-plugins. Data-business radar maps 4 signals to Evals and quality. The standing analysis was generated with an unknown model and 0 evidence refs.
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has release signal count 74
Thesis
Zhipu AI (GLM) is shipping a broad, fast-moving family of open-weight GLM models across text, vision, OCR, speech, and image generation, releasing point versions at high cadence (GLM-4.5 through GLM-5/5.1 plus specialized variants) and backing them with first-party SDKs. The standout signal is reach: its OCR and Flash models are pulling millions of monthly Hugging Face downloads, and its older ChatGLM line remains its most-starred work on GitHub.
Shipping
Zhipu's most-downloaded model by a wide margin is `zai-org/GLM-OCR` at 4.25M 30-day downloads (1,815 likes), a compact ~1.3B-param model — and it is on a tight release tempo, with five tagged GitHub releases from v0.1.1 through v0.1.5. Next is `zai-org/GLM-4.7-Flash` at 1.15M downloads (~31B params), a smaller/faster tier sitting alongside the full `zai-org/GLM-4.7` (66,802 downloads, ~358B params).
The flagship frontier line is visibly active: `zai-org/GLM-5` (97,587 downloads, 2,093 likes — the most-liked model in the set) and `zai-org/GLM-5.1` (134,239 downloads, 1,740 likes), both ~754B params. The GLM-4.5 generation remains heavily pulled too — `zai-org/GLM-4.5-Air` (353,329 downloads, ~110B) and `zai-org/GLM-4.5` (185,074 downloads, ~358B).
Modality coverage is wide:
- Vision/multimodal: `zai-org/GLM-4.1V-9B-Thinking` (503,155 downloads), `zai-org/GLM-4.5V` (177,149), `zai-org/GLM-4.6V-Flash` (56,428), `zai-org/GLM-4.6V` (3,489).
- Speech: `zai-org/GLM-ASR-Nano-2512` (129,077 downloads, ~2.3B params).
- Image generation: `zai-org/GLM-Image` (7,563 downloads, 1,073 likes).
- Other: `zai-org/GLM-4.6` (14,606) and the experimental `zai-org/Glyph` (1,581).
On tooling, Zhipu maintains first-party SDKs with recent releases: z-ai-sdk-python v0.2.2 and z-ai-sdk-java 0.3.0.
Research themes
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Hiring & scaling
No careers data captured yet.
Traction highlights
- Hacker News: `zai-org/GLM-OCR` drew 302 points / 75 comments — by far the lab's strongest HN thread. The agent-automation repo `zai-org/Open-AutoGLM` registered only 2 points / 0 comments.
- Most-starred repos: the legacy chat line dominates — `ChatGLM-6B` (41,051 stars), `Open-AutoGLM` (25,456), `ChatGLM2-6B` (15,571), `ChatGLM3` (13,680), and `CogVideo` (12,767). The current `GLM-OCR` repo already sits at 6,918 stars and `GLM-4.5` at 4,351.
- Most-downloaded models: `GLM-OCR` (4.25M), `GLM-4.7-Flash` (1.15M), and `GLM-4.1V-9B-Thinking` (503K) lead 30-day pulls.
Three flagship cards, no leaderboard
A cross-card read of GPT-5.6, GLM-5.2 and Kimi-K2-Thinking: the closed leader publishes zero capability comparisons while the two open labs publish incompatible ones — so the leaderboard everyone wants cannot be built from primary sources. That void is the eval product.
Read the analysis →Deep reportGLM-5.2 — the open agentic-frontier play
Zhipu’s MIT-licensed flagship is in the Opus/GPT-5.5/Gemini tier on agentic SWE while trailing on broad knowledge — and its own cross-vendor table shows why "the harness is the benchmark".
Read the analysis →Data-business radar
cross-lab →4 matches · 1 active lane
Zhipu AI (GLM) has a repo signal matching evals and quality.