Major Release Zhipu AI LLM Proprietary (open weights for non-frontier sizes)

Zhipu AI GLM-5

First frontier model trained entirely on Huawei Ascend silicon.

Released 2026-02-11 · 744B · 200K tokens context · knowledge cutoff 2025-11

Overview

First frontier AI model trained entirely without NVIDIA GPUs, using Huawei Ascend chips

Specifications

DeveloperZhipu AI
Release date2026-02-11
Model typeLLM
Parameters744B
ArchitectureDense Transformer (744B)
Context window200K tokens
Max output32K
Knowledge cutoff2025-11
LicenseProprietary (open weights for non-frontier sizes)
Input modalitiestext, image
Output modalitiestext

Benchmarks

Benchmark GLM-5
HLE 50.4%
Hallucination Rate 1.2%
Cost $0.11/M tokens
MMLU 88.7%
C-Eval 92.1%
GSM8K 94.8%

Pricing

$0.11
per 1M input tokens
$0.28
per 1M output tokens

Availability

API Only Zhipu BigModel API

Release notes

Official references

Launch coverage