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Zhipu AI

GLM family — bilingual + multimodal foundation models from Tsinghua

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Founded

2019

Headquarters

China

Price range

API format

openai

Reachability & verification

Live reachability

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Overseas reference latency (est.)

Singapore 180 ms London 210 ms

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About Zhipu AI

Zhipu AI (BigModel) operates the GLM-4 family, including GLM-4-Plus (flagship), GLM-4-Air (cost-efficient), and CogVLM (multimodal). Spun out of Tsinghua KEG Lab; known for bilingual Chinese-English performance and open-weight releases.

Pros

  • OpenAI-compatible API: openai — drop-in for existing SDK users
  • Established 7+ years (founded 2019)

Cons

  • No overseas node — mainland China access only; GFW affects foreign users
  • Payments only via alipay, wechat, invoice — may block non-China billing

Tracked models

19

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