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Z.ai Launches GLM-4.5 with Bold Open-source Push: China's Top LLM Contender Challenges Big Tech

08-04-2025 11:10 PM CET | IT, New Media & Software

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Z.ai Launches GLM-4.5 with Bold Open-source Push: China's Top

Z.ai (formerly Zhipu) has released GLM-4.5, marking the company's entry into open-source Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) modeling with a series designed specifically for autonomous AI agents. The launch positions these models as competitive alternatives to proprietary offerings from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

Two-Model Release Strategy

The GLM-4.5 family includes two variants optimized for different computational requirements:

1. GLM-4.5: The flagship model with 355 billion total parameters and 32 billion active parameters

2. GLM-4.5-Air: A more efficient variant with 106 billion total parameters and 12 billion active parameters

Both models are accessible through multiple channels, including Hugging Face [https://huggingface.co/collections/zai-org/glm-45-687c621d34bda8c9e4bf503b], OpenRouter [https://openrouter.ai/provider/z-ai], Z.ai API Platform [http://docs.z.ai/guides/llm/glm-4.5], and Z.ai Chat [http://chat.z.ai], ensuring broad developer access.

MoE Architecture Drives Efficiency

The models leverage Mixture-of-Experts architecture to achieve substantial computational efficiency. Rather than engaging all parameters simultaneously, the system dynamically routes tasks to specialized neural network components. This approach enables GLM-4.5 to activate only 9% of its total parameters (32B of 355B) during inference, while GLM-4.5-Air operates with just 11% activation (12B of 106B). The architecture delivers performance comparable to larger dense models while maintaining operational costs similar to much smaller systems.

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Top Performance on Key Benchmarks

Z.ai backed its launch with a suite of benchmark results that place GLM-4.5 among the world's top-performing models-both open and closed source.

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Agentic

GLM-4.5 demonstrates strong performance in autonomous agent tasks, matching Claude 4 Sonnet on TAU-Bench and BFCL v3 evaluations. Notably, the model achieved 26.4% on BrowseComp-a complex web navigation benchmark-surpassing Claude 4 Opus's 18.8% score. Tool invocation reliability reached 90.6%, exceeding both Claude (89.5%) and Kimi-K2 (86.2%).

Reasoning

The model shows exceptional analytical capabilities with 98.2% accuracy on MATH 500 problems and 91.0% on AIME 2024 mathematical competition tasks. Performance on general reasoning benchmarks includes 79.1% on GPQA and 84.6% on MMLU Pro, placing it among the top three models globally and first among open-source alternatives.

Coding

In programming evaluations, GLM-4.5 scored 64.2% on SWE-bench Verified, outperforming GPT-4.1 and approaching Kimi-K2's results. The model achieved 37.5% on Terminal-Bench, demonstrating competency in command-line environments and multi-file programming scenarios.

Open access, enterprise-ready, and affordable

Z.ai is making a clear push for widespread adoption with its licensing and pricing strategy. Both models are released under the Apache 2.0 license, allowing free commercial use, modification, and redistribution-offering developers maximum flexibility. Also, the models are globally accessible. They can be self-hosted via Hugging Face and ModelScope or Z.ai's global API, which is fully compatible with the Claude API endpoint, making integration seamless.

In terms of pricing, Z.ai is setting a new benchmark with aggressively low rates-approximately $0.11 per million input tokens and $0.28 per million output tokens, significantly undercutting major competitors. Moreover, it also delivers impressive inference performance, reaching speeds of over 100 tokens per second in high-speed mode and averaging 40-50 tokens per second in default mode, making it ready for large-scale, production-grade agentic deployments.

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With this combination of strong performance, developer-friendly integration, and radically affordable access, Z.ai's GLM-4.5 is about to become a foundational pillar for the next generation of AI development.

The GLM-4.5 release represents Z.ai's strategic positioning in the evolving AI landscape, targeting developers and enterprises seeking greater control, transparency, and cost-effectiveness compared to closed-source alternatives. The open-source approach provides auditability and customization options while delivering performance competitive with proprietary models.
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