Z.ai

Chinese LLM lab (formerly Zhipu AI, spun out of Tsinghua University) behind the open-source GLM model family. Flagship GLM-5.1 targets long-horizon agentic coding, holds the top open-source rank on SWE-Bench Pro, runs 200K context, and is MIT-licensed with weights on Hugging Face.

Last 12 months

Focus areas

OPEN_SOURCE•LLMS•DEVELOPMENT•LONG CONTEXT•SMALL MODELS•VISION LANGUAGE

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Z.ai Opens ZCode's Full Coding Agent Stack to Developers Worldwide

Z.aiDevelopment

Sep 21

Z.ai's GLM-5.3-Flash Matches Claude Opus at One-Tenth the Price

Aug 26

Z.ai's GLM-5.3 Got So Dangerous It Delayed Its Own Release

Aug 25

Z.ai's GLM-5.3 Brings Frontier Cybersecurity AI to the Open-Weight World

Z.aiDevelopment

Aug 14

Z.ai's ZCode Ships a Desktop Agent Built Around GLM-5.2's 1M-Token Window

Z.aiDevelopment

Jul 01

Z.ai's GLM-5.2 Hits 1M Context at 10x Cheaper Than Claude

Jun 16

Z.ai's GLM-5.2 Beats GPT-5.5 on Coding With a 1M Context Window

Jun 16

Z.ai's GLM-5.2 Hits 1M Context Window to Challenge Claude Code

Jun 13

Zhipu AI's GLM-OCR Beats Gemini and GPT-5.2 at 260x Smaller

Apr 21

Z.ai's Tiny GLM-OCR Beats Models 260x Larger at Reading Documents

Jan 30