While GLM-5 seems impressive, this release also included lots of new cool stuff!

> GLM-5 can turn text or source materials directly into .docx, .pdf, and .xlsx files—PRDs, lesson plans, exams, spreadsheets, financial reports, run sheets, menus, and more.

A new type of model has joined the series, GLM-5-Coder.

GLM-5 was trained on Huawei Ascend, last time when DeepSeek tried to use this chip, it flopped and they resorted to Nvidia again. This time seems like a success.

Looks like they also released their own agentic IDE, https://zcode.z.ai

I don’t know if anyone else knows this but Z.ai also released new tools excluding the Chat! There’s Zread (https://zread.ai), OCR (seems new? https://ocr.z.ai), GLM-Image gen https://image.z.ai and Voice cloning https://audio.z.ai

If you go to chat.z.ai, there is a new toggle in the prompt field, you can now toggle between chat/agentic. It is only visible when you switch to GLM-5.

Very fascinating stuff!