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GLM Image

glm-image

Open SourceMultimodal

About

GLM-Image by Zhipu AI (Z.ai). A 16B hybrid model combining a 9B autoregressive language model with a 7B diffusion decoder for text-to-image generation. Pioneered open-source Chinese character and structured text rendering in AI images. The first open-source image model trained entirely on Huawei Ascend hardware. Achieves 91.16% word accuracy on CVTG-2K. Open source, $0.015 per image via Z.ai API.

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalReasoningFunction CallingTool UseStructured OutputsCode ExecutionPrompt CachingBatch APIAudioFine-tuning

Rankings

Specifications

FamilyGLM Image
Released2026-01-14
Parameters16B
Architecturehybrid
Specializationimage-generation
LicenseApache 2.0

Created by

Chinese AI research lab developing GLM language models.

Beijing, China
Founded 2019
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