Lab release history
Last updated Jun 19, 2026
Z.ai (Zhipu AI) model releases
Tsinghua-spun lab behind the GLM family, rebranded internationally as Z.ai. This page collects the lab's model releases, lifecycle events, source links, and model metadata in one crawlable record.
15 models
Z.ai Fable-class model
RumoredA speculative Z.ai frontier model tracked after Z.ai founder Jie Tang responded to Elon Musk's prediction of a Chinese Fable 5-class model by saying it would not take that long. Name, architecture, weights, and launch timing remain unconfirmed.
GLM-5.2
AvailableZ.ai's latest open flagship for long-horizon coding, agentic engineering, and million-token workflows, adding IndexShare sparse-attention reuse over GLM-5.1.
GLM-5.1
AvailableZ.ai agentic-engineering follow-up to GLM-5, with stronger coding performance and better long-horizon tool-use behavior.
GLM-5V-Turbo
AvailableZ.ai's native-multimodal vision agent: the first GLM model designed from the start as a multimodal agent, taking image, video, and text input and producing agent-oriented output (tool calling, task decomposition, and GUI interaction). Served via API with a ~203K-token context.
GLM-5
AvailableZ.ai flagship for complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks, scaling the GLM line to 744B total / 40B active parameters.
GLM-4.7
AvailableCoding-focused GLM release with improved multilingual agentic coding, terminal tasks, tool use, and interface generation.
GLM-4.6V
AvailableOpen 106B-class vision-language model with native multimodal function calling for visual agents.
GLM-4.6
AvailableAgentic reasoning and coding upgrade over GLM-4.5, expanding the text context window from 128K to 200K tokens.
GLM-4.5V
AvailableVision-language GLM based on GLM-4.5-Air, covering image, video, document, grounding, and GUI-agent tasks.
GLM-4.5
AvailableOpen agentic, reasoning, and coding foundation model that marked Z.ai international rebrand and MIT-licensed GLM push.
GLM-4.5-Air
AvailableCompact GLM-4.5 companion with 106B total / 12B active parameters for efficient agentic reasoning and coding.
GLM-4-9B
AvailableOpen GLM-4 9B model family, covering chat, long-context, and code-oriented variants.
GLM-4
AvailableZhipu's GLM-4 flagship generation, launched as the successor to ChatGLM3 with stronger tool use and multimodal variants.
ChatGLM2-6B
AvailableSecond open ChatGLM generation, improving long context, inference efficiency, and bilingual chat quality.
ChatGLM-6B
AvailableZhipu AI and Tsinghua KEG's first widely used open bilingual ChatGLM checkpoint.