Zhipu AI Releases GLM-5: 745B Open-Source Model Rivals Claude Opus on Coding Benchmarks

Summary

Chinese AI lab Zhipu AI released GLM-5, a 745-billion parameter MoE (Mixture of Experts) model with 44B active parameters, under an MIT license. The model was trained entirely on Huawei chips — no NVIDIA hardware — and claims parity with Claude Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.2 on coding and agent tasks. It is now the most powerful open-source model available according to Artificial Analysis, surpassing Moonshot's Kimi K2.5. The model is available on Hugging Face and OpenRouter at approximately $0.80-1.00 p