{"schema_version":"onlylabs.public_analysis.v1","url":"https://onlylabs.fyi/analysis/zhipu","json_url":"https://onlylabs.fyi/analysis/zhipu/analysis.json","evidence_json_url":"https://onlylabs.fyi/analysis/zhipu/evidence.json","generated_at":"2026-06-11T18:16:20.363Z","analysis":{"org_slug":"zhipu","url":"https://onlylabs.fyi/analysis/zhipu","json_url":"https://onlylabs.fyi/analysis/zhipu/analysis.json","evidence_json_url":"https://onlylabs.fyi/analysis/zhipu/evidence.json","dossier_url":"https://onlylabs.fyi/labs/zhipu","org":{"slug":"zhipu","name":"Zhipu AI (GLM)","category":"frontier-lab","category_label":"Frontier lab","homepage_url":"https://z.ai"},"title":"Zhipu AI (GLM) analysis","summary":"Zhipu AI (GLM) is shipping a broad, fast-moving family of open-weight GLM models across text, vision, OCR, speech, and image generation, releasing point versions at high cadence (GLM-4.5 through GLM-5/5.1 plus specialized variants) and backing them with first-party SDKs. The standout signal is reach: its OCR and Flash models are pulling millions of monthly Hugging Face downloads, and its older ChatGLM line remains…","markdown":"## Thesis\n[Zhipu AI (GLM)](https://z.ai) is shipping a broad, fast-moving family of open-weight GLM models across text, vision, OCR, speech, and image generation, releasing point versions at high cadence (GLM-4.5 through GLM-5/5.1 plus specialized variants) and backing them with first-party SDKs. The standout signal is reach: its OCR and Flash models are pulling millions of monthly Hugging Face downloads, and its older ChatGLM line remains its most-starred work on GitHub.\n\n## Shipping\nZhipu's most-downloaded model by a wide margin is [`zai-org/GLM-OCR`](https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-OCR) at **4.25M** 30-day downloads (1,815 likes), a compact ~1.3B-param model — and it is on a tight release tempo, with five tagged GitHub releases from [v0.1.1](https://github.com/zai-org/GLM-OCR/releases/tag/v0.1.1) through [v0.1.5](https://github.com/zai-org/GLM-OCR/releases/tag/v0.1.5). Next is [`zai-org/GLM-4.7-Flash`](https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.7-Flash) at **1.15M** downloads (~31B params), a smaller/faster tier sitting alongside the full [`zai-org/GLM-4.7`](https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.7) (66,802 downloads, ~358B params).\n\nThe flagship frontier line is visibly active: [`zai-org/GLM-5`](https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5) (97,587 downloads, 2,093 likes — the most-liked model in the set) and [`zai-org/GLM-5.1`](https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.1) (134,239 downloads, 1,740 likes), both ~754B params. The GLM-4.5 generation remains heavily pulled too — [`zai-org/GLM-4.5-Air`](https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.5-Air) (353,329 downloads, ~110B) and [`zai-org/GLM-4.5`](https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.5) (185,074 downloads, ~358B).\n\nModality coverage is wide:\n- **Vision/multimodal:** [`zai-org/GLM-4.1V-9B-Thinking`](https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.1V-9B-Thinking) (503,155 downloads), [`zai-org/GLM-4.5V`](https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.5V) (177,149), [`zai-org/GLM-4.6V-Flash`](https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.6V-Flash) (56,428), [`zai-org/GLM-4.6V`](https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.6V) (3,489).\n- **Speech:** [`zai-org/GLM-ASR-Nano-2512`](https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-ASR-Nano-2512) (129,077 downloads, ~2.3B params).\n- **Image generation:** [`zai-org/GLM-Image`](https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-Image) (7,563 downloads, 1,073 likes).\n- **Other:** [`zai-org/GLM-4.6`](https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.6) (14,606) and the experimental [`zai-org/Glyph`](https://huggingface.co/zai-org/Glyph) (1,581).\n\nOn tooling, Zhipu maintains first-party SDKs with recent releases: [z-ai-sdk-python v0.2.2](https://github.com/zai-org/z-ai-sdk-python/releases/tag/v0.2.2) and [z-ai-sdk-java 0.3.0](https://github.com/zai-org/z-ai-sdk-java/releases/tag/0.3.0).\n\n## Research themes\nNo first-party writing captured yet.\n\n## Hiring & scaling\nNo careers data captured yet.\n\n## Traction highlights\n- **Hacker News:** [`zai-org/GLM-OCR`](https://github.com/zai-org/GLM-OCR) drew **302 points / 75 comments** — by far the lab's strongest HN thread. The agent-automation repo [`zai-org/Open-AutoGLM`](https://github.com/zai-org/Open-AutoGLM) registered only 2 points / 0 comments.\n- **Most-starred repos:** the legacy chat line dominates — [`ChatGLM-6B`](https://github.com/zai-org/ChatGLM-6B) (41,051 stars), [`Open-AutoGLM`](https://github.com/zai-org/Open-AutoGLM) (25,456), [`ChatGLM2-6B`](https://github.com/zai-org/ChatGLM2-6B) (15,571), [`ChatGLM3`](https://github.com/zai-org/ChatGLM3) (13,680), and [`CogVideo`](https://github.com/zai-org/CogVideo) (12,767). The current [`GLM-OCR`](https://github.com/zai-org/GLM-OCR) repo already sits at 6,918 stars and [`GLM-4.5`](https://github.com/zai-org/GLM-4.5) at 4,351.\n- **Most-downloaded models:** [`GLM-OCR`](https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-OCR) (4.25M), [`GLM-4.7-Flash`](https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.7-Flash) (1.15M), and [`GLM-4.1V-9B-Thinking`](https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.1V-9B-Thinking) (503K) lead 30-day pulls.\n\n## Sources\n- Homepage: https://z.ai\n- https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-OCR\n- https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.7-Flash\n- https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.1V-9B-Thinking\n- https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.5-Air\n- https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5\n- https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.1\n- https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-ASR-Nano-2512\n- https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-Image\n- https://github.com/zai-org/GLM-OCR (and releases v0.1.1–v0.1.5)\n- https://github.com/zai-org/ChatGLM-6B\n- https://github.com/zai-org/Open-AutoGLM\n- https://github.com/zai-org/z-ai-sdk-python/releases/tag/v0.2.2\n- https://github.com/zai-org/z-ai-sdk-java/releases/tag/0.3.0","generated_at":"2026-06-08T15:59:10.224+00:00","citations":[{"url":"https://z.ai","path":null,"label":"z.ai","type":"external"},{"url":"https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-OCR","path":null,"label":"zai-org/GLM-OCR","type":"external"},{"url":"https://github.com/zai-org/GLM-OCR/releases/tag/v0.1.1","path":null,"label":"zai-org/GLM-OCR","type":"external"},{"url":"https://github.com/zai-org/GLM-OCR/releases/tag/v0.1.5","path":null,"label":"zai-org/GLM-OCR","type":"external"},{"url":"https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.7-Flash","path":null,"label":"zai-org/GLM-4.7-Flash","type":"external"},{"url":"https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.7","path":null,"label":"zai-org/GLM-4.7","type":"external"},{"url":"https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5","path":null,"label":"zai-org/GLM-5","type":"external"},{"url":"https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.1","path":null,"label":"zai-org/GLM-5.1","type":"external"},{"url":"https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.5-Air","path":null,"label":"zai-org/GLM-4.5-Air","type":"external"},{"url":"https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.5","path":null,"label":"zai-org/GLM-4.5","type":"external"},{"url":"https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.1V-9B-Thinking","path":null,"label":"zai-org/GLM-4.1V-9B-Thinking","type":"external"},{"url":"https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.5V","path":null,"label":"zai-org/GLM-4.5V","type":"external"},{"url":"https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.6V-Flash","path":null,"label":"zai-org/GLM-4.6V-Flash","type":"external"},{"url":"https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.6V","path":null,"label":"zai-org/GLM-4.6V","type":"external"},{"url":"https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-ASR-Nano-2512","path":null,"label":"zai-org/GLM-ASR-Nano-2512","type":"external"},{"url":"https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-Image","path":null,"label":"zai-org/GLM-Image","type":"external"},{"url":"https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.6","path":null,"label":"zai-org/GLM-4.6","type":"external"},{"url":"https://huggingface.co/zai-org/Glyph","path":null,"label":"zai-org/Glyph","type":"external"},{"url":"https://github.com/zai-org/z-ai-sdk-python/releases/tag/v0.2.2","path":null,"label":"zai-org/z-ai-sdk-python","type":"external"},{"url":"https://github.com/zai-org/z-ai-sdk-java/releases/tag/0.3.0","path":null,"label":"zai-org/z-ai-sdk-java","type":"external"},{"url":"https://github.com/zai-org/GLM-OCR","path":null,"label":"zai-org/GLM-OCR","type":"external"},{"url":"https://github.com/zai-org/Open-AutoGLM","path":null,"label":"zai-org/Open-AutoGLM","type":"external"},{"url":"https://github.com/zai-org/ChatGLM-6B","path":null,"label":"zai-org/ChatGLM-6B","type":"external"},{"url":"https://github.com/zai-org/ChatGLM2-6B","path":null,"label":"zai-org/ChatGLM2-6B","type":"external"},{"url":"https://github.com/zai-org/ChatGLM3","path":null,"label":"zai-org/ChatGLM3","type":"external"},{"url":"https://github.com/zai-org/CogVideo","path":null,"label":"zai-org/CogVideo","type":"external"},{"url":"https://github.com/zai-org/GLM-4.5","path":null,"label":"zai-org/GLM-4.5","type":"external"}],"provenance":{"provider":null,"model":null,"workflow":"synthesize-analyses","agent":null},"evidence":{"total":null,"pages":null,"events":null,"web":null,"signal_desks":null,"data_radar_lanes":null,"data_radar_matches":null}},"signal_counts":{"total":96,"model_released":31,"release":16,"repo_new":49,"repo_forked":0,"post_published":0,"job_opened":0}}