Zhipu AI Releases Chinese LLM Alignment Evaluation Benchmark AlignBench


Chinese large model companies are aggressively rushing toward listing. Recently, Born Ready Technologies, MiniMax, and Zhipu Huazhang have successively passed the Hong Kong Stock Exchange hearing or completed registration, marking that several leading AI companies have entered the final countdown for IPO. This reflects that the domestic large model industry is transitioning from the technology development stage to a crucial phase of commercialization and capitalization, with the industry facing an important turning point.
Zhipu AI officially open-sources its latest general vision model, GLM-4.1V-Thinking, based on the GLM-4V architecture, which introduces a chain-of-thought reasoning mechanism, significantly enhancing its capabilities for complex cognitive tasks. The model supports multimodal inputs such as images, videos, and documents, and excels in diverse scenarios including long video understanding, image question answering, subject problem-solving, text recognition, document interpretation, grounding, GUI Agent, and code generation, covering a wide range of industry application needs. GLM-4.1V-9B-Thinking
Zhipu AI today launched its latest Agent product, AutoGLM-Thinking, at the 2025 Zhongguancun Forum. This is the industry's first Agent product to integrate deep research capabilities with operational capabilities, its key feature being the ability to think and act concurrently. AutoGLM-Thinking breaks the limitations of traditional AI models, capable of simultaneously performing complex reasoning and executing actions. It can, like a human, open and browse web pages, completing entire tasks from data retrieval and analysis to report generation, achieving a tight integration of thought and action. Zhipu AI stated...
According to reports, the U.S. Department of Commerce has added Zhipu AI to its entity list for export controls, accusing it of promoting China's military modernization and infringing on U.S. national security and diplomatic interests. ** This decision makes Zhipu AI the first Chinese large model company to be added to the U.S. entity list, marking a new round of suppression by the U.S. on China's artificial intelligence industry. Zhipu AI subsequently issued a statement emphasizing that the company is based on technology transfer from Tsinghua University and provided a detailed review of its technological development history. Zhipu AI started developing the GLM pre-training architecture in 2020 and launched it in 2022.
The GLM-PC base model CogAgent-9B under Zhipu AI has now been open-sourced to promote the development of the large model Agent ecosystem. CogAgent-9B is a specialized Agent task model trained based on GLM-4V-9B, capable of predicting the next GUI action based solely on a screenshot input, combining user-specified tasks with historical operations. This model's versatility makes it widely applicable to various GUI interaction scenarios such as personal computers, smartphones, and vehicle systems.