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ChatGLM

Challenger

China's top-rated AI assistant with GLM-5 flagship model and CodeGeeX coding agent

👥 6M+ users💰 $41.4B market cap (HK IPO Jan 2026)

✓ Last verified: March 2026

ChatGLM by Z.AI (formerly Zhipu AI) is powered by the GLM-5 flagship model with 744B parameters, achieving 77.8% on SWE-bench. It offers agent-native architecture with built-in planning and tool use, plus the CodeGeeX AI coding assistant. Open-source under MIT license for commercial use.

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Key Features

✓GLM-5 flagship model with 744B parameters (MoE, 40B active) and 200K+ token context
✓Agent-native architecture with built-in multi-step planning and tool use
✓CodeGeeX AI coding assistant with VS Code and JetBrains integrations
✓Multimodal capabilities including text-to-video, text-to-image, and vision-language
✓Open-source model weights under MIT license for commercial use

Best For

👍 Developers wanting powerful open-source models with MIT licensing for commercial use
👍 Coding-focused users seeking an affordable AI coding assistant
👍 Enterprises needing on-premise AI deployment options

Limitations

⚠️ On U.S. Commerce Department Entity List; restricted for some international users
⚠️ Primarily China-focused; international expansion still maturing
⚠️ Consumer pricing not transparently published; tier details unclear