# Z.ai: what I've logged

> Z.ai comes up in 7 posts of my AI log, from September 2025 to August 2026, and each item below links to the primary source. The releases I logged include GLM-5.3-Flash, GLM-5.3 and GLM-5.2, filed under image, video, world, open weights and agents and coding.

## Items

1. **GLM-5.3-Flash** (Z.ai, 24 Aug 2026): The first natively multimodal model in the GLM-5 series: 320B total, 18B active, 1M context, MIT license and ungated weights. [Primary source](https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-08-24-week-in-ai#item-3)
2. **GLM-5.3** (Z.ai, 10 Aug 2026): A coding-first post-training of the GLM-5.2 base for long-horizon software work, with open weights promised after safety hardening. [Primary source](https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-08-10-week-in-ai#item-3)
3. **GLM-5.2** (Z.ai, 15 Jun 2026): Z.ai's notes date GLM-5.2 to June 16, with a 1M-token context and better long-horizon coding. [Primary source](https://docs.z.ai/release-notes/new-released) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-06-15-week-in-ai#item-1)
4. **GLM-5.1** (Z.ai, 6 Apr 2026): Z.ai's release notes date GLM-5.1 to April 7 and describe a model that can work on one task autonomously for up to eight hours. [Primary source](https://docs.z.ai/release-notes/new-released) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-04-06-week-in-ai#item-3)
5. **GLM-5V-Turbo** (Z.ai, 30 Mar 2026): Z.ai's repo logs the April 2 release of a multimodal model aimed at vision-based coding and agent work. [Primary source](https://github.com/zai-org/GLM-V) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-03-30-week-in-ai#item-3)
6. **GLM-4.6V** (Z.ai, 8 Dec 2025): An open vision-language model that can call tools using images directly, in 106B and 9B sizes. [Primary source](https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.6V) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-12-08-week-in-ai#item-4)
7. **GLM-4.6** (Z.ai, 29 Sept 2025): Context grows to 200K and agentic coding improves in an open-weights model. [Primary source](https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.6) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-09-29-week-in-ai#item-5)

## Posts

- 2026-08-24 [Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash video, Tencent's Hy4 and GLM-5.3-Flash open up](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-08-24-week-in-ai)
- 2026-08-10 [Grok 4.6, Gemini 3.7 Flash and GLM-5.3 arrive in four days](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-08-10-week-in-ai)
- 2026-06-15 [GLM-5.2 with a 1M window, Codex Record and Replay](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-06-15-week-in-ai)
- 2026-04-06 [Anthropic gates Mythos Preview, Meta's Muse Spark, GLM-5.1](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-04-06-week-in-ai)
- 2026-03-30 [Gemma 4 goes Apache 2.0, Qwen3.6-Plus, GLM-5V-Turbo](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-03-30-week-in-ai)
- 2025-12-08 [GPT-5.2 lands, MCP moves to a foundation, Devstral 2 and GLM-4.6V](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-12-08-week-in-ai)
- 2025-09-29 [Claude Sonnet 4.5, Sora 2, and DeepSeek's sparse attention](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-09-29-week-in-ai)

Canonical: https://heyaliasif.com/ai/topics/z-ai