GLM-5: How Zhipu AI Achieved Local Coding Excellence
Zhipu AI's GLM-5 is a 744B parameter Mixture of Experts model that activates only 40B parameters per token, delivering strong coding performance that surpasses DeepSeek-V3.2 on SWE-bench and approaches Claude Opus 4.5. The model uses DeepSeek Sparse Attention for efficient inference and was trained on 28.5T tokens. It's best suited for developers needing offline coding capabilities with multi-GPU setups (8+ GPUs recommended for FP8), though cloud solutions may be more practical for those without the hardware.
