What GLM-5 is
GLM-5 is Zhipu AI's flagship model family as of September 2026, with the current top model being GLM-5.3 (positioned as 'Frontier Coding with Emergent Cyber Capabilities' with a 1M-token lossless context). The line also includes GLM-5V-Turbo (multimodal), GLM-5-Turbo (agent-optimized), AutoGLM (autonomous agent), and is distributed via Z.ai, ChatGLM, ZCode, and the Zhipu MaaS API.
Funding snapshot
IPO on Hong Kong Stock Exchange (Jan 8, 2026); market cap $62B by Aug 2026
Key features
- GLM-5.3 flagship with 1M-token lossless context, open-source SOTA coding
- 'Frontier Coding with Emergent Cyber Capabilities'
- GLM-5V-Turbo multimodal vision-language model and GLM-5-Turbo agent-optimized variant
- AutoGLM autonomous agent and ZCode multi-agent harness
Where it lives
Z.ai consumer platformChatGLM chat productZCode developer harnessZhipu MaaS API (GLM-5.3, GLM-5V-Turbo, Translation, Slide/Poster agents)
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