Zhipu AI GLM-4.5 Release: New Benchmark Challenging GPT-4’s AI Coding Capabilities

Introduction: A New Paradigm Shift in AI Landscape

Just when everyone thought the AI landscape was settled, a new player has flipped the table.

Today, stop focusing only on OpenAI and Google. Turn your attention to the East, where Zhipu AI is bringing their latest “trump card” — the GLM-4.5 series models, officially declaring to the world: “I want it all!”

This isn’t a routine upgrade; this might be an “evolutionary leap” in AI capabilities. In the past, we always debated which model is better at math, which is stronger at coding, which is better at conversation. GLM-4.5’s answer is: children make choices, but in the adult world, I must possess all top-tier capabilities.

GLM-4.5 Series Models Overview

Meet the New “Monster”

This time, Zhipu AI released two brothers at once:

  • GLM-4.5: The complete “hexagonal warrior” with 355 billion total parameters, the absolute protagonist of this release, targeting the world’s most elite names.
  • GLM-4.5-Air: The lightweight “agile assassin” with fewer parameters, faster response times, but equally formidable capabilities.

Their most terrifying feature lies in something called “Intelligent Agent” capability. If previous AIs were “conversing” with you, then GLM-4.5 is “working for you.”

GLM-4.5 Intelligent Agent Capability Demo

Revolutionary Code Generation Capabilities

It Doesn’t Just Write Code; It’s “Building Factories”!

Stop measuring AI by “writing a sorting algorithm” — that’s “Stone Age” thinking.

GLM-4.5’s coding capabilities have evolved to a “Genesis” level. In the released technical demonstrations, it’s like an experienced full-stack engineer. You just need to speak, and it can:

  • Develop a complete website: From frontend interface to backend database, one-stop service. The “Pokemon Pokedex” website in the demo was built from scratch by it, with user experience and functional completeness comparable to professional team work.
  • Create a game: For games like “Flappy Bird,” it can directly generate playable HTML files, letting you play immediately in the chat dialog.
  • Design beautiful PPTs: Give it a PDF document or just a topic, like “introducing Tour de France champion Pogačar’s achievements,” and it can search the web for information, find images, and generate a visually appealing, well-designed PPT. Workers, feeling a chill?

Code Capability Test Results

In professional code capability assessments (SWE-bench), GLM-4.5’s score (64.2%) has surpassed powerful opponents like Claude 4 Sonnet (70.4% with higher configuration requirements) and GPT-4.1 (48.6%). Among models of similar scale, its performance is terrifying.

GLM-4.5 Code Capability Test Results

Powerful Reasoning Capabilities

Reasoning Ability: It’s Like a “Cunning Strategist”

This time, GLM-4.5 has a built-in “thinking mode.” When you encounter complex math problems, scientific questions, or logic puzzles, it no longer guesses based on “language sense” but starts deep thinking like a true expert, step-by-step deduction and calculation, finally providing the answer.

In tests like AIME (American Invitational Mathematics Examination) and GPQA (Google’s high-difficulty Q&A), which test the ceiling of intelligence, its performance ranks in the first tier, proving it not only “can work” but also “has brains.”

Global AI Model Ranking Comparison

Head-to-Head! Global AI Summit, Where Does It Rank?

Of course, talk is cheap; let’s see the actual results.

Zhipu AI was very “martial” this time, directly putting GLM-4.5 in an “arena” with 12 authoritative benchmark tests, competing comprehensively with flagship models from global top players like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Alibaba, and MoonShot.

The results?

  • GLM-4.5, global comprehensive ranking: 3rd place.
  • GLM-4.5-Air, global comprehensive ranking: 6th place.

What does this mean? It means that on the global AI table, there’s now a Chinese player that cannot be ignored. It has proven itself with strength, not as “another GPT,” but as a true “top-tier challenger.”

Technical Architecture Innovation

Revealing the “Black Technology”: Why Is It So Strong?

Behind powerful capabilities lies technological innovation. Zhipu has also revealed their “martial arts manual”:

  • Smarter “Mixture of Experts (MoE)” Architecture: If ordinary models are like general practitioners, MoE is like forming an “expert committee.” GLM-4.5 not only uses MoE but builds it “higher” (more network layers), allowing the model to think deeper. Like a company, not only are there many experts, but the hierarchical management is also more efficient, naturally leading to higher decision quality.

  • Proprietary Training Method slime: To train powerful “intelligent agents,” Zhipu developed a reinforcement learning framework codenamed slime. This framework solves the core pain point of low efficiency when training large intelligent agents, using an “asynchronous decoupling” mode that allows data generation and model training to not interfere with each other, squeezing GPU performance to the extreme.

Future Outlook and Impact

The Storm Has Arrived; Are You Ready?

The release of GLM-4.5 isn’t just the birth of a new model; it’s more like a signal: AI is evolving from “chatbots” to “digital employees” and “creative partners.” What it can do has far exceeded our imagination.

From today onwards, when we evaluate an AI, perhaps we shouldn’t ask “what does it know” but “what can it do.”

Zhipu AI has made GLM-4.5’s API, open-source model weights, and local deployment guides all public. For developers and enterprises, this is an unprecedented opportunity. For each of us ordinary people, this is both a challenge and an opportunity to rethink how to coexist with AI.

A new era has begun.

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