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GLM

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Definition

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A Chinese open-weight language model family from Zhipu AI.

As stated in the literature

Zhipu AI's General Language Model series, an open-weight foundation model family including GLM-4.6 and GLM-5.

Also called: GLM-5, GLM-4.6

Why it matters: China's open-weight model ecosystem is a major part of the global AI landscape, and GLM is one of its flagship families.

For example, GLM-4.6 is one of the open Chinese frontier-class models that researchers compare against Llama and Qwen.

Heard on the show

“On one model — GLM — Arbor got an improvement of a hundred and ninety-three percent.”
Episode 139 — When Optimizing One GPU Kernel Quietly Breaks the Whole System

Mentioned in 6 episodes

  1. 139
    When Optimizing One GPU Kernel Quietly Breaks the Whole System
  2. 091
    When Better Fine-Tuning Can't Help: A Geometric Impossibility in LLM Causal Reasoning
  3. 084
    Terminal Agents Get Free Supervision From The Tokens We've Been Throwing Away
  4. 030
    Why Your AI Agent Won't Stop Working — and Each Model Falls for a Different Trap
  5. 021
    Ten Thousand Examples Beat the Full Industrial Pipeline for Search Agents
  6. 001
    When AI Models Quietly Protect Each Other From Shutdown

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open-weight