GLM-5 is ZAI's most powerful general language model, delivering frontier-class performance in Chinese and English with strong capabilities across reasoning, coding, and creative generation. Built on the General Language Model architecture, GLM-5 pushes the boundaries of bilingual AI with deep understanding of both Western and Eastern cultural contexts.
GLM-5's unique architecture combines autoregressive and bidirectional attention, enabling it to excel at both generation and understanding tasks. Its strong performance on Chinese-language benchmarks makes it the top choice for applications targeting Chinese-speaking markets.
Key Features
Frontier-class bilingual performance (Chinese + English)
Hybrid autoregressive-bidirectional architecture
Strong reasoning and analytical capabilities
128K token context window
Excellent code generation with CJK documentation support
Native tool use and function calling
Ideal Use Cases
Bilingual enterprise applications serving Chinese and English users
Chinese-market content creation and localization
Complex analytical tasks requiring bilingual reasoning
Code generation with Chinese documentation and comments
Technical Specifications
| Context Window | 128K tokens |
| Modality | Text, Image → Text |
| Provider | ZAI |
| Category | Text Generation |
| Max Output | 16K tokens |
| Best For | Bilingual Chinese-English workloads |
API Usage
1 curl -X POST https://api.vincony.com/v1/chat/completions \ 2 -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \ 3 -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ 4 -d '{ 5 "model": "zai/glm-5", 6 "messages": [ 7 { "role": "user", "content": "Hello, GLM-5!" } 8 ] 9 }'
Replace YOUR_API_KEY with your Vincony API key. OpenAI-compatible endpoint — works with any OpenAI SDK.
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