Zhipu AI releases open GLM-5 for long-running agentic engineering
Zhipu AI released GLM-5 as an open model focused on coding and long-running agent tasks, with a 744-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts design and 40 billion active parameters described in its later technical report. Reuters reported that the model was adapted for inference on several Chinese chip platforms, including Huawei Ascend, amid tighter access to advanced United States chips.
Why it matters: GLM-5 offered developers an inspectable frontier-scale agent model and demonstrated that serious long-horizon systems were being co-designed for non-NVIDIA hardware ecosystems.