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24 alternatives to GLM5 Large Language Model
GLM-5 | Zhipu AI's Next-Generation Large Language Model
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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How small can a language model be while still doing something useful? I wanted to find out, and had some spare time over the holidays. Z80-μLM is a character-level language model with 2-bit quantized weights ({-2,-1,0,+1}) that runs on a Z80 with 64KB RAM. The entire thing: inference, weights, chat UI, it all fits in a 40KB .COM file that you can run in a CP/M emulator and hopefully even real hardware! It won't write your emails, but it can be trained to play a stripped down version of 20 Questions, and is sometimes able to maintain the illusion of having simple but terse conversations…
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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GLM-4.5 Open-Source Agentic AI Model
2025 · glm45.org · its alternatives →
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A few days ago I found myself trying out GLM 5.2 and was really positively impressed. The capabilities and security I was getting from this LLM are similar to those I've gotten from models like Claude or GPT, and this really surprised me. But then I thought, "I wonder how it would work on a normal computer like mine," and above all, "I wonder if it would work without going into OOM on a computer like mine." So I started working with the help of agents to test this possibility. I started converting the model to int4, understanding MTP usage, and if possible implementing DSA for long context.…
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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GLM-5-Turbo▲289High-speed agentic model built specifically for OpenClaw
Mar 2026 · docs.z.ai · its alternatives →
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Qwen2.5-Max▲59Large language model series developed by Alibaba Cloud
2025 · qwenlm.github.io · its alternatives →
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2024 best model from xAI, now open source.
2025 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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We are excited to announce Cedille, the largest language model for French (6b parameters). Demo: https://cedille.ai Language models are general purpose AI systems that are able to solve a range of tasks by simply being prompted for it. It can be used for example to summarize text, do translations, or for idea generation & overcoming writer's block. You may know GPT-3, the humongous model from OpenAI. Cedille is a similar model targeting the French demographic - but smaller, as we don’t yet have $1b in the bank like they do. Although GPT-3 supports multiple languages including…
2021 · its alternatives →
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Qwen3.5▲288The 397B native multimodal agent with 17B active params
Feb 2026 · qwen.ai · its alternatives →
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Tighter instruction adherence in speech agents
Feb 2026 · developers.openai.com · its alternatives →
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gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b open-weight language models
2025 · openai.com · its alternatives →
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Built a ~9M param LLM from scratch to understand how they actually work. Vanilla transformer, 60K synthetic conversations, ~130 lines of PyTorch. Trains in 5 min on a free Colab T4. The fish thinks the meaning of life is food. Fork it and swap the personality for your own character.
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Interactive timeline of every major Large Language Model. Filterable by open/closed source, searchable, 54 organizations tracked.
Feb 2026 · llm-timeline.com · its alternatives →
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Microsoft Phi-4▲196Microsoft’s New Small Language Model For Complex Reasoning
2024 · its alternatives →
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Qwen3.5 Small▲3550.8B-9B native multimodal w/ more intelligence, less compute
Mar 2026 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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Dream 7B▲191Powerful Open Diffusion LLM, Beyond Autoregressive
2025 · hkunlp.github.io · its alternatives →
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General Compute▲315AI models that run on an inference cloud optimized for speed
May 2026 · generalcompute.com · its alternatives →
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