GLM Image
Released
2026-01-14
Last refreshed
2026-10-08
Status
Researched 184d ago
Open sourceCommercial use: permittedMultimodal
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Specifications
- Family
- GLM Image
- Released
- 2026-01-14
- Parameters
- 16B
- Specialization
- image-generation
- Openness
- Open source
- License
- Apache 2.0OSI-approvedPermitted
- Weights
- Unknown
- Code
- Unknown
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Providers(1)
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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.
Providers(1)
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| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Z.ai | - | - | ServerlessPartial |
Capabilities
Multimodal
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| Benchmark | Score | Version | Evaluation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,012 | text_to_image overall 2026-10-26Observed 2026-10-27 | Configuration: GLM-Image Harness: LMArena blind pairwise human votes, Bradley-Terry Evaluator: LMArena Confidence: confirmed Notes: LMArena text to image leaderboard, overall category, published 2026-10-26 (HF lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset @a467e6b9, latest split). Board entry 'GLM-Image': rank 76 of 82, Arena Score 1012.2 (95% CI 1003.3-1021.1), 4854 votes. Source: LMArena (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-27. | Source Source: LMArena (lmarena.ai), CC BY 4.0 |
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