GLM 5

What it does

GLM-5 is Zhipu AI's fifth-generation large language model, featuring a massive 745 billion total parameters and 44 billion active parameters in a Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture. Developed as a spin-off from Tsinghua University, GLM-5 is engineered for agentic intelligence, frontier-level reasoning, and advanced coding capabilities. A standout feature is its full hardware independence, having been trained entirely on Huawei Ascend chips using the MindSpore framework. It serves as a direct, cost-effective challenger to global models like GPT-5 and Claude, with a strong focus on open-source availability and long-context processing through DeepSeek's sparse attention mechanism.

Core features

• ✦745B Total / 44B Active MoE Architecture
• ✦Agentic Intelligence for autonomous planning and tool use
• ✦Full US-Hardware Independence (Huawei Ascend/MindSpore)
• ✦DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA) for efficient long-context processing
• ✦Expected MIT License for open-weight commercial use

Use cases

• →Developing autonomous AI agents for multi-step workflow management
• →High-level code generation, debugging, and software engineering
• →Complex mathematical proofs and scientific logical reasoning
• →Cost-effective enterprise-scale content generation