GLM 5

zai-org · released 2026-02-11 · mit license

GLM-5 is Z.ai's 744B-parameter (40B active) MoE frontier model (Feb 2026, MIT), ranked #1 open-weight on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, with 77.8% SWE-bench Verified, 92.7% AIME 2026 and 86.0% GPQA Diamond (vendor).

Key specs

TypeLocal open-weight
Parameters753.86B total · MoE, — active
Architectureglm_moe_dsa
Context window203K tokens
Knowledge cutoff
Modalitiestext
Recommended backends
Minimum viable rig

Benchmark scores

GPQA Diamond86%
SWE-bench Verified77.8%
AIME92.7%
MMLU-Pro
BFCL v3 (tool use)
Composite score8.38
Community ratingNo reviews yet

VRAM & disk per quantization

QuantVRAMDiskRAMContext
Q4_K_M438.7 GB437.2 GB203K

Strengths & weaknesses

Strengths: #1 open-weight on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (50) at release; Strong agentic/coding and long-horizon planning; Permissive MIT license

Weaknesses: Text-only, no native multimodal; Verbose and relatively expensive to run