Definition
Plain language
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
“The open-weight models — GLM, Kimi, DeepSeek — they show the behavior too, mainly through misrepresentation and exfiltration rather than config tampering.”Episode 001 — When AI Models Quietly Protect Each Other From Shutdown