GLM-4-Air
Zhipu AI · · 533 days after GLM-130B
Partially verified
0 of 1 published values traced to a source2 primary sources, 2 archived1 not disclosed by the lab2 not researched yet
Why this status
Split from the former "glm-4" record, which was named for the family while holding one variant's figures. Evidence: "This report primarily focuses on the GLM-4 language series, which includes GLM-4, GLM-4-Air, and GLM-4-9B." Capabilities evidenced from the primary sources: multilingual: “7k GLM-4 series: Open Multilingual Multimodal Chat LMs | 开源多语言多模态对话模型 License Apache-2.”.
What these states mean · How records are judged · Has this record changed?
The cost-efficient tier of the GLM-4 series, served through the API alongside the flagship.
Details
| Released | January 16, 2024 |
|---|---|
| Company | Zhipu AI |
| Family | GLM |
| Released alongside | GLM-4 · GLM-4-9B |
| Era | Multimodal & open weights |
| Type | Language model · LLM |
| Modalities | Not recorded |
| Capabilities | Multilingual |
| Weights | Proprietary |
| Licence | Not applicable — proprietary |
| Context window | Not disclosed |
| Parameters | Not researched |
Current information, elsewhere
This record is a historical one: every figure above is traced to a dated primary source. For what is true today — live pricing, current rankings, availability — these are better maintained than anything here could be.
- Current price and providers OpenRouter ↗
- Current benchmark scores Artificial Analysis ↗
Sources
Record status: partly verified · confidence 75/100 · 2 of 2 primary
Split from the former "glm-4" record, which was named for the family while holding one variant's figures. Evidence: "This report primarily focuses on the GLM-4 language series, which includes GLM-4, GLM-4-Air, and GLM-4-9B." Capabilities evidenced from the primary sources: multilingual: “7k GLM-4 series: Open Multilingual Multimodal Chat LMs | 开源多语言多模态对话模型 License Apache-2.”.
- github.com Code repository archived
- arxiv.org Technical paper archived
Primary means published by the organisation that made the model. Verified records require at least one.
GLM family
- GLM-130B August 1, 2022
- GLM-4 January 16, 2024
- GLM-4-Air January 16, 2024
- GLM-4-9B January 16, 2024
- GLM-4.5 July 28, 2025
- GLM-4.6 September 30, 2025
- GLM-4.7 December 22, 2025
- GLM-4.7-Flash January 19, 2026
- GLM-5 February 12, 2026
- GLM-5-Turbo March 15, 2026
- GLM-5.1 April 7, 2026
- GLM-5.2 June 13, 2026
- GLM-5.3 August 14, 2026
- GLM-5.3-Flash August 26, 2026
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