Zhipu AI / Zai-Org

GLM-5.1

Frontier reasoning model with 128K context and agentic capabilities

Overall Highlight

Frontier reasoning with FP8 efficiency — 2x faster inference, near-lossless quality

Overview

GLM-5.1 is a frontier-class language model from Zhipu AI (marketed as Zai-Org). It excels at complex reasoning, code generation, and agentic tasks with tool use. The FP8 quantized variant delivers near-equivalent performance at reduced compute cost. Known for strong instruction following and multi-step planning abilities.

Capabilities

  • Complex multi-step reasoning
  • Code generation and debugging
  • Agentic tool use and function calling
  • Long-context understanding (128K tokens)
  • Mathematical problem solving
  • Creative writing with controlled style

Use Cases

  • Building AI agents with tool use
  • Code review and refactoring
  • Technical documentation
  • Multi-turn conversational assistants
  • Research and analysis tasks

Version Breakdown

GLM-5.1-FP8

2026 Q2

Context Window

128K tokens

Parameters

~300B (FP8 quantized)

Release

2026 Q2

Highlights

  • FP8 quantization for 2x inference speedup
  • Near-lossless quality vs FP16 baseline
  • Optimized for Vultr GPU instances
  • Agentic tool use with native function calling

Benchmarks

MMLU

88.4

HumanEval

92.1

GSM8K

95.3

MATH

78.6

GLM-5.1

2026 Q1

Context Window

128K tokens

Parameters

~300B (FP16)

Release

2026 Q1

Highlights

  • Full precision reference model
  • Best-in-class reasoning on math benchmarks
  • Strong zero-shot instruction following
  • Native support for structured output (JSON)

Benchmarks

MMLU

89.1

HumanEval

93.0

GSM8K

96.0

MATH

79.8

GLM-4.5

2025 Q4

Context Window

64K tokens

Parameters

~200B

Release

2025 Q4

Highlights

  • Previous generation with strong general capabilities
  • Widely deployed in production
  • Good cost-to-performance ratio
  • Stable API with high availability

Benchmarks

MMLU

84.2

HumanEval

87.5

GSM8K

91.0

MATH

72.1