{"id":15501,"date":"2026-02-11T21:28:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/chinas-zhipu-ai-launches-new-major-model-glm-5-in-challenge-to-its-rivals\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T21:28:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:28:40","slug":"chinas-zhipu-ai-launches-new-major-model-glm-5-in-challenge-to-its-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/chinas-zhipu-ai-launches-new-major-model-glm-5-in-challenge-to-its-rivals\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Zhipu AI launches new major model GLM-5 in challenge to its rivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"11.616\">Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Zhipu AI<\/span> has launched its latest flagship model, the GLM-5, with a leap in coding capabilities amid a heated race among Chinese tech firms to roll out major new models ahead of the Spring Festival holiday.<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"11.759036144578\">Zhipu AI, known internationally as Z.ai, said that the <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">GLM-5<\/span> represented a shift in AI development from &ldquo;vibe coding&rdquo; to &ldquo;agentic engineering&rdquo; &ndash; AI-automated coding at a larger scale &ndash; thanks to its latest model&rsquo;s enhanced performance.<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"7.7763157894737\">The company said that GLM-5 achieved industry-leading scores for open models in key areas such as coding and agentic performance according to internal tests, even surpassing <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Google DeepMind&rsquo;s<\/span> most powerful model, <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Gemini 3 Pro<\/span>.<\/div>\n<div data-qa=\"InlineAdSlot-Container\" class=\"css-zl1inp e11v3ui14\">\n<div class=\"e11v3ui10 e11v3ui13 css-1evd7i0 e1flwkbl0\" data-qa=\"AdSlot-Container\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">However, the model still lagged Anthropic&rsquo;s Claude, a proprietary model and widely considered the world&rsquo;s best coding model, across the board on coding benchmarks, according to the company&rsquo;s self-reported scores.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"13.526785714286\">The new model doubled the size of its predecessor, GLM-4.7, from 355 billion to 744 billion parameters and increased the training data to 28.5 trillion tokens. It also adopted a new architecture, first pioneered by the Hangzhou start-up <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">DeepSeek<\/span>, called <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">DeepSeek Sparse Attention<\/span>, designed to maximise computational and cost efficiency.<\/div>\n<div class=\"methode-html-wrapper oembed-wrapper e1a5rv550 css-1llrc1m e1yqhwb40\" data-qa=\"Component-renderMap-StyledDiv\">\n<div class=\"c1 e1drg7e30 e1ciypty0 ehdmpxk0 css-qpd3t0 e1hpd36k0\" data-qa=\"Component-SCMPYoutubeVideoContainer\" readability=\"6.5\">\n<div data-qa=\"SCMPYoutubeVideoPreview-PreviewContainer\" class=\"css-zg359x e1o401186\">\n<div data-qa=\"SCMPYoutubeVideoPreview-PreviewContentContainer\" class=\"css-qgt9eo e1o401187\">\n<div data-qa=\"SCMPYoutubeVideoPreview-PreviewContentFloatContainer\" class=\"css-7nqkgi e1o401183\" readability=\"6.5\">\n<div data-qa=\"SCMPYoutubeVideoPreview-PreviewContentDataContainer\" class=\"css-1pcpmhl e1o401180\" readability=\"8\">\n<p data-qa=\"SCMPYoutubeVideoPreview-PreviewDuration\" class=\"css-1vqvq42 e1o401181\">05:04<\/p>\n<p data-qa=\"SCMPYoutubeVideoPreview-PreviewTitle\" class=\"css-zasw6y e1o401182\">China creates analogue AI chip said to be 1,000 times faster than Nvidia GPU<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e1hpd36k1 css-79hwxn e1x11wau0\" data-qa=\"SCMPYouTubeVideoFooter-VideoTitleContainer\" readability=\"8\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"25\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 25\" fill=\"none\" data-qa=\"SCMPYouTubeVideoFooter-StyledVideoRecorder\" class=\"css-1nnwg93 e1x11wau1\"><path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M22 6.22926V18.4315L17.5463 13.9868V17.8655C17.5463 18.1618 17.4383 18.4248 17.2228 18.6531C17.0067 18.8829 16.7498 18.9967 16.4537 18.9967H3.13414C2.80989 18.9967 2.53968 18.8829 2.32425 18.6531C2.10808 18.4248 2 18.1618 2 17.8655V6.79519C2 6.49893 2.10808 6.23665 2.32425 6.00688C2.53968 5.77858 2.80989 5.66333 3.13414 5.66333H16.4537C16.7498 5.66333 17.0067 5.77858 17.2228 6.00688C17.4383 6.23665 17.5463 6.49893 17.5463 6.79519V10.674L22 6.22926Z\" fill=\"#001246\"><\/path><\/svg>\n<p>China creates analogue AI chip said to be 1,000 times faster than Nvidia GPU<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"6.2363636363636\">The new model is available on Zhipu&rsquo;s official website and has been open-sourced on GitHub and <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Hugging Face<\/span>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>China&rsquo;s Zhipu AI launches new major model GLM-5 in challenge to its rivals<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company Zhipu AI has launched its latest flagship model, the GLM-5, with a leap in coding capabilities amid a heated race among Chinese tech firms to roll out major new models ahead of the Spring Festival holiday. 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