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Zhipu AI (Z.ai)

Tsinghua spin-out building the GLM models.

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Type	Frontier labs
Founded	2019
Headquarters	Beijing, China
Website	z.ai

Zhipu AI (Z.ai) research

66 papers in OpenAlex list an author affiliated with Zhipu AI (China) in the last 12 months. The most cited:

Tea bud pose estimation and grading detection network based on improved YOLOv712 Mar 2026 · 3 citations
LPS-GNN: Deploying Graph Neural Networks on Graphs with 100-Billion Edges31 Mar 2026 · 2 citations
Generalizing Graph Transformers Across Diverse Graphs and Tasks via Pre-Training13 Nov 2025 · 2 citations
Dual Denoising Diffusion Model for Session-based Social Recommendation7 Nov 2025 · 2 citations
Molecular mechanisms and translational potential of plant-derived nanovesicles in skin care and regeneration28 Aug 2026 · 1 citations

Source: OpenAlex (CC0), institution Zhipu AI (China), read 2 Nov 2026.

Zhipu AI (Z.ai) models

28models released, last 12 months

154public models in total

Latest releases

Most downloaded

zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash6,313,299 downloads (30 days)
zai-org/GLM-5.32,406,057 downloads (30 days)
zai-org/GLM-OCR1,738,803 downloads (30 days)
zai-org/GLM-51,567,043 downloads (30 days)
zai-org/GLM-4.5-Air1,295,413 downloads (30 days)

Source: Hugging Face Hub, organisation zai-org, read 2 Nov 2026.

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