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GLM-4 & GLM-4V (Zhipu AI)

In plain English

GLM-4 is a multilingual powerhouse that excels at understanding photos, charts, and complex tools with precise accuracy right on your laptop! 🖼️🛠️

What is actually going on

Developed by Zhipu AI, GLM-4-9B and its vision counterpart GLM-4V-9B utilize 2D RoPE positional encodings for multi-resolution images and 128k context windows. GLM-4 features state-of-the-art function calling and tool execution compliance, outperforming Llama-3-8B on complex agentic benchmarks.

Why it matters

GLM-4V provides a private, fully local vision-language model capable of analyzing charts, diagrams, and screenshots on 12GB+ GPUs.

Another way to think about it

A bilingual detective with eagle-eye vision who can read blueprints and operate machinery with perfect precision. 🦅🔍

Check yourself

  1. What is the primary capability of GLM-4V?

    • Multimodal Vision & Language understanding
    • Generating 3D music files
    • Controlling drone propellers
    • Encrypting Wi-Fi passwords
    Show answer

    Multimodal Vision & Language understanding — GLM-4V-9B is an open multimodal model designed for visual comprehension, charts, and document analysis.

Terms from this lesson

GLM-4 & GLM-4V