GLM-4.5: Reasoning, Coding, and Agentic Abililties

Another, new, huge, open-weight foundation model coming out from a Chinese AI lab. How many do we have something similar outside China today? It’s astonishing. They’re supposed to have limited GPU supply but it doesn’t seem to matter.¹

The Coder ‘Village’ at the Heart of China’s A.I. Frenzy - The New York Times

This article portrays the life at a “AI town” in China which has strong ties to both an “Ivy league”-esque University there and the industry players like Alibaba. It’s kind of like San Francisco but they’re doing it in open-weight ways.

For these catching up players there are strategic values to be open-weight, and there is no way to see this as a pure altruism. But it doesn’t matter.

Well, it doesn’t matter if you’re one of the researchers or engineers working on these big frontier models. There are so many players in their own country! They are competitors but they must be friends too. And they’re all trolling (or even dominating) the US closed model players. How exciting it is to be in such a possibly once-in-a-lifetime moment. I cannot imagine.