ChatGLM-4
Zhipu AI
SUPERSEDED. Zhipu AI's flagship multilingual model released January 2024 (API) with open-source GLM-4-9B variants in June 2024. Pretrained on 10 trillion tokens primarily Chinese/English plus 24 additional languages. Features 128K context length for both GLM-4 and GLM-4 All Tools. Advanced capabilities: web browsing, code execution, custom tool calls (Function Call), long context reasoning. Approaches state-of-the-art models (GPT-4 Turbo, Gemini 1.5 Pro, Claude 3 Opus) on standard benchmarks. Best-in-class for Chinese language tasks. GLM-4-9B open variant enables research and deployment on consumer hardware. Zhipu no longer documents this January 2024 model; the repository this record cited now hosts the GLM-4-0414 open-weight successor series instead. Unsourceable fields have been removed.
Strengths
- Approaches GPT-4 Turbo, Gemini 1.5 Pro, Claude 3 Opus on standard benchmarks
- Best-in-class Chinese language performance - specifically optimized
- 128K context length for both base and All Tools variants
- Advanced tool use - web browsing, code execution, custom function calls
- Pretrained on 10T tokens across 26 languages (primarily Chinese/English)
- GLM-4-9B open variants enable research and consumer hardware deployment
- Supervised fine-tuning and RLHF for alignment
Caveats
- SUPERSEDED - Zhipu no longer documents this model; the cited repository now hosts the GLM-4-0414 successor series
- Context window, output limit, release date and pricing are not stated at any vendor URL and have been omitted
- Primarily optimized for Chinese market - less ecosystem support in West
- 4K max output tokens standard for the class
- GLM-4 flagship is proprietary (9B variants are open)
- Ecosystem and tooling less mature than OpenAI/Anthropic
- English performance may lag purpose-built English models
- Vendor
- Zhipu AI
- License
- Proprietary
- Modalities
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