India, July 28 -- Chinese AI firm Xhipu AI has recently unveiled a new open-source model called GLM 4.5, reinforcing it as a competitor to global players like OpenAI. The company, a spin-off from Tsinghua University, continues to expand its GLM (General Language Model) series, aiming to make advanced AI more accessible.

Among its recent releases, Zhipu AI has open-sourced versions of its GLM-4 series and GLM-Z1 inference models, including 9B and 32B parameter variants. These models, released under the permissive MIT license, support commercial use and offer developers greater freedom. Zhipu AI claims its GLM-Z1 inference model achieves notably fast inference speeds, up to eight times faster than some competitors, reaching 200 tokens per ...