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Tsinghua Knowledge Engineering Group (THUDM)

Tsinghua Knowledge Engineering Group (THUDM)

14 models across 7 families · Latest: Together GLM-5 (2026-02)

Leading China's LLM innovation surge

Long contextVisionChinaAcademic

Tsinghua Knowledge Engineering Group (THUDM)'s portfolio covers 14 active models across 5 current families, spanning long context and vision. Open a model detail page to compare provider routes and sourced benchmarks.

Covers 2 workload areas across 14 active tracked models; last verified 2026-05-19.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating long context and vision across this lab's releases
  • Comparing model families before committing to a flagship
  • Migration and pricing follow-ups across 14 tracked models

Do not use it for

  • Choosing a hosting provider without opening a model page for price ladders

Active models

14

Current models from this lab, excluding deprecated ones

Active families

5

Current model families from this lab

Open catalog

14 open

14 open source / 0 open weights

Lowest output price

$0.200 /1M

Cheapest tracked output across active models, per 1M tokens

Latest dated release

2026-02-20

Together GLM-5

Freshness

2026-05-19

Researched 105d ago

stale

Information

Founded2018
Beijing, China

Release cadence

Dated releases
5
Latest model
Together GLM-5
Latest date
2026-02-20

Where this lab wins

  • Long-context: 7 tracked models with context-token or InfiniteBench-class signal.
  • Vision: 2 tracked models with multimodal benchmark coverage.

Flagship quality / price signal

Flagship
ChatGLM3 6B
Selection source
Best sourced coding Q/$
Coding grade
unknown
Benchmark / output price
Not enough sourced benchmark and price coverage

About

The Tsinghua Knowledge Engineering Group (THUDM) in Beijing, China, sits at the forefront of AI research, making substantial strides in generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs). Their work is rooted in a commitment to advancing the capabilities of AI technologies and showcasing their unique position within the global research community. One of their most groundbreaking achievements is the development of the ChatGLM family of LLMs, with iterations like GLM-4, CodeGeeX, CogVLM (VisualGLM), WebGLM, and the expansive GLM-130B. These models exemplify THUDM's adeptness in creating diverse LLMs tailored for various purposes.

Featured models

ModelReleasedContextInput price ($/1M)Output price ($/1M)LicenseOpenness
Together GLM-52026-02-20200k--Apache 2.0Open source
CogVLM2 Chat 19B2025-04-22---Apache 2.0Open source
ChatGLM-4 32B2025-02-28128k--Apache 2.0Open source

Model families

Recent releases

  1. Together GLM-5- 2026-02-20
  2. CogVLM2 Chat 19B- 2025-04-22
  3. ChatGLM-4 32B- 2025-02-28
  4. ChatGLM-4 9B- 2025-01-15
  5. GLM-Z1 9B- 2025-01-08

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Last reviewed: 2026-05-19. Data sourced from public lab announcements and provider documentation.