February 12, 2026 · Z.ai
GLM-5 released for complex system engineering and long-range Agent tasks
- Designed for complex system engineering and long-range Agent tasks, GLM-5 shifts the paradigm from coding to engineering, demonstrating strong deep-reasoning performance in backend architecture, complex algorithms, and stubborn bug fixing.
- It directly benchmarks against Claude Opus 4.5 in code-logic density and systems-engineering capability, and integrates DeepSeek Sparse Attention for higher token efficiency while preserving long-context quality.Learn more in our documentation.*
Latest Z.ai API changes
New model adds native visual capabilities, with 320B total and 18B active parameters
GLM-5.3 released, with 50% coding gain over GLM-5.2 on Z.ai Code Bench
Model adds 1M lossless context, with stronger long-horizon task performance
GLM-5.1 released, working independently for up to 8 hours in a single run
GLM-Image image generation model released, with improved text rendering