GLM-4.5: Zhipu AI's Next-Gen Multimodal Foundation Model

Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The evolution of foundation models in 2025-2026 has been defined by two trends: multimodality and efficiency. Models that could only process text have rapidly given way to models that natively understand images, audio, and video. Meanwhile, Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures have become the standard approach for building models that are both powerful and practical to deploy. Zhipu AI’s GLM-4.5 represents the convergence of these trends in the Chinese AI ecosystem.

GLM-4.5 is Zhipu AI’s next-generation foundation model, building on the GLM-4 architecture with native multimodal understanding, significantly improved reasoning capabilities, and an efficient MoE design. The model represents China’s most ambitious open-source AI release to date, competing directly with GPT-4o, Claude 4 Sonnet, and Gemini 2.5 across both Chinese and English benchmarks.

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GLM-4.5: Zhipu AI's Next-Gen Multimodal Foundation Model