Z.ai (Zhipu AI) Open Models: Model List and Licenses
About Z.ai (Zhipu AI)
Z.ai (Zhipu AI) is a Chinese AI company. According to the card of its zai-org organization on Hugging Face, it builds the ChatGLM (GLM) family of language models, develops LLMs as agents, and releases related training and inference techniques.
It updates its large flagship models at short intervals while also releasing small versions and image and speech models.
What It Releases
- The GLM-5 line (2026): GLM-5 (February), 5.1 (April), 5.2 (June) and 5.3 (August), roughly every two months. According to the model card, GLM-5.3 uses the same base model as GLM-5.2, and every gain comes from post-training, with big improvements in complex coding and long-horizon tasks. GLM-5.3-Flash, which also reads images, was released alongside it.
- Small and medium models: GLM-4.7-Flash (about 31B, January 2026), GLM-4.6V-Flash (about 10B, reads images) and others.
- Image and speech: GLM-Image for image generation (January 2026), GLM-TTS for speech synthesis and GLM-ASR-Nano for speech recognition.
- There is also AutoGLM-Phone, an agent that operates smartphones (its model card says it is intended for research and educational purposes only).
Licenses
Most are MIT, but GLM-5.3 alone uses its own “GLM-5.3 License". Under it, a licensee that operates a Model-as-a-Service business (offering models through an API and the like) with more than US$10 billion in revenue over any 12 consecutive months must pass Z.ai’s security review before commercial use. GLM-5.3-Flash and GLM-5.2 and earlier are MIT. Read each model’s license text before use. This summary is not legal advice.
Running Them Locally
- The flagship GLM-5 models (about 750B) do not fit on consumer GPUs. NVIDIA publishes NVFP4 builds of GLM-5.3 and GLM-5.3-Flash.
- For local use, GLM-4.7-Flash and GLM-4.6V-Flash are the candidates. Official GGUF builds are limited to older models such as GLM-Edge; use third-party conversions for recent models.
Sources: the zai-org organization card; the model card and license text of zai-org/GLM-5.3; the model list of the zai-org organization on Hugging Face (all as of 2026-09-26).
Our Coverage and Data
Local Model Watch has not published an article on Z.ai (Zhipu AI)’s models yet. The model list below is collected by code from Hugging Face every day. Part of our publisher index; model families link to their family pages.
At a Glance
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Hugging Face organization | zai-org |
| Models on Hugging Face | 154 |
| Articles on its own models | 0 |
| Articles on derived models | 0 |
Recent Models on Hugging Face
The publisher lists 154 models in total on Hugging Face. Below are up to 15 of the most recent generative models (text, image, video, audio and so on), the scope of this site, per organization. Classifiers, feature extractors, research components and repositories without a model card are omitted, and the publisher’s own quantized builds and helper variants are folded into the row of the original model. Parameter counts are left blank for repositories that pack weights into integer types, where Hugging Face’s count is not the real parameter count.
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| Released | Model | Task | Parameters | License | Official variants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-25 | zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash | vision-language | 321.3B | mit |
BF16 |
| 2026-08-25 | zai-org/GLM-5.3 | text generation | 753.3B | glm-5.3 |
BF16 |
| 2026-06-16 | zai-org/GLM-5.2 | text generation | 753.3B | mit |
FP8 |
| 2026-06-09 | zai-org/SCAIL-2 | video generation | — | mit |
— |
| 2026-04-03 | zai-org/GLM-5.1 | text generation | 753.9B | mit |
FP8 |
| 2026-02-11 | zai-org/GLM-5 | text generation | 753.9B | mit |
FP8 |
| 2026-01-19 | zai-org/GLM-4.7-Flash | text generation | 31.2B | mit |
— |
| 2026-01-08 | zai-org/GLM-Image | image generation | 6.9B | mit |
— |
| 2025-12-22 | zai-org/GLM-4.7 | text generation | 358.3B | mit |
FP8 |
| 2025-12-11 | zai-org/RealVideo | vision-language | — | mit |
— |
| 2025-12-10 | zai-org/GLM-TTS | audio | — | mit |
— |
| 2025-12-09 | zai-org/GLM-ASR-Nano-2512 | audio | 2.3B | mit |
— |
| 2025-12-09 | zai-org/AutoGLM-Phone-9B-Multilingual | vision-language | — | mit |
— |
| 2025-12-08 | zai-org/AutoGLM-Phone-9B | vision-language | — | mit |
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| 2025-12-07 | zai-org/GLM-4.6V | vision-language | 107.7B | mit |
FP8 |
From the Hugging Face API. Last changed 2026-09-27 (JST). Collected by code.
Last updated 2026-09-27 (JST). The explanation at the top of this page was written with the help of AI from the primary sources it cites. The tables and lists under “Our Coverage and Data" are assembled by code from our article log and the Hugging Face API.