GLM-5 Review: The 744B Open-Source Model That Changes the Game
The open-source AI community just got its most powerful weapon yet. GLM-5, a 744-billion parameter model released under the MIT license, is not just competitive with proprietary models — it is beating some of them on benchmarks that matter. Built by Zhipu AI (Z.AI) and trained entirely on Huawei Ascend chips without a single NVIDIA GPU, GLM-5 is as much a geopolitical statement as it is a technical achievement. But for developers and startups, the only question that matters is: can it actually do the work? ...