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GLM-4-0414

LLMs zai-org Text gen 2 builds Open weights 32k dl/mo

GLM-4-0414 is an open-weight language model from zai-org. GLM-4-9B-0414 (BF16) weighs 18.8 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is 2× RTX 3060 12 GB.

GLM-4-0414 is a 9.4B parameter text-generation model developed by zai-org. It supports Chinese and English with a context length of 32,768 tokens. The model is released under the MIT license.

Summary of the zai-org/GLM-4-9B-0414 model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released byzai-org
Released2025-04-07
Parameters9.4B
VRAM18.8 GB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for GLM-4-9B-0414 (BF16)

18.8 GBweights, file size
41 MBcache per 1K tokens
764 MBruntime overhead, at least
32,768 tokenscontext max
CardRequests at onceContext maxMemory
8K each32K each
RTX 3060 12 GB … RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB
2 smaller cards
———
RTX 3090 24 GB112all 32K23.4 GB
RTX 4090 24 GB112all 32K23.4 GB
RTX 5090 32 GB348all 32K31.0 GB
L40S 48 GB7218all 32K44.0 GB
A100 80 GB17443all 32K78.2 GB
H100 80 GB16140all 32K78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB20852all 32K93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified24862all 32K107 GB
H200 141 GB33984all 32K138 GB
B200 180 GB451112all 32K176 GB
2× RTX 3060 12 GB
tensor parallel
82all 32K11.6 GB a card
2× RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB
tensor parallel
317all 32K15.4 GB a card
Memory needed at each load
Requests at once8K tokens each32K tokens each
119.9 GB20.9 GB
521.2 GB26.3 GB
822.2 GB30.3 GB
1624.9 GB41.0 GB
3230.3 GB62.5 GB
6441.0 GB105 GB

One card, with vLLM's small-card settings.

Builds

Sizes, precisions & builds

BuildParamsPrecisionWeightsSmallest setup
GLM-4-9B-0414 (above) ↗ 9.4BBF16 18.8 GB2× RTX 3060 12 GB
GLM-4-32B-0414 ↗ 32.6BBF16 65.1 GBH100 80 GB

From the model card

What zai-org says about GLM-4-0414

Read the model card

Introduction

The GLM family welcomes new members, the GLM-4-32B-0414 series models, featuring 32 billion parameters. Its performance is comparable to OpenAI’s GPT series and DeepSeek’s V3/R1 series. It also supports very user-friendly local deployment features. GLM-4-32B-Base-0414 was pre-trained on 15T of high-quality data, including substantial reasoning-type synthetic data. This lays the foundation for subsequent reinforcement learning extensions. In the post-training stage, we employed human preference alignment for dialogue scenarios. Additionally, using techniques like rejection sampling and reinforcement learning, we enhanced the model’s performance in instruction following, engineering code, and function calling, thus strengthening the atomic capabilities required for agent tasks. GLM-4-32B-0414 achieves good results in engineering code, Artifact generation, function calling, search-based Q&A, and report generation. In particular, on several benchmarks, such as code generation or specific Q&A tasks, GLM-4-32B-Base-0414 achieves comparable performance with those larger models like GPT-4o and DeepSeek-V3-0324 (671B).

GLM-Z1-32B-0414 is a reasoning model with deep thinking capabilities. This was developed based on GLM-4-32B-0414 through cold start, extended reinforcement learning, and further training on tasks including mathematics, code, and logic. Compared to the base model, GLM-Z1-32B-0414 significantly improves mathematical abilities and the capability to solve complex tasks. During training, we also introduced general reinforcement learning based on pairwise ranking feedback, which enhances the model's general capabilities.

GLM-Z1-Rumination-32B-0414 is a deep reasoning model with rumination capabilities (against OpenAI's Deep Research). Unlike typical deep thinking models, the rumination model is capable of deeper and longer thinking to solve more open-ended and complex problems (e.g., writing a comparative analysis of AI development in two cities and their future development plans). Z1-Rumination is trained through scaling end-to-end reinforcement learning with responses graded by the ground truth answers or rubrics and can make use of search tools during its deep thinking process to handle complex tasks. The model shows significant improvements in research-style writing and complex tasks.

Finally, GLM-Z1-9B-0414 is a surprise. We employed all the aforementioned techniques to train a small model (9B). GLM-Z1-9B-0414 exhibits excellent capabilities in mathematical reasoning and general tasks. Its overall performance is top-ranked among all open-source models of the same size. Especially in resource-constrained scenarios, this model achieves an excellent balance between efficiency and effectiveness, providing a powerful option for users seeking lightweight deployment.

Showcase

Animation Generation

  GLM-Z1-32B-0414
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         style="width: 400px; height: 300px; object-fit: contain;" autoplay loop muted playsinline>
    write a Python program that shows a ball bouncing inside a spinning hexagon. The ball should be affected by gravity and friction, and it must bounce off the rotating walls realistically
         style="width: 400px; height: 300px; object-fit: contain;" autoplay loop muted playsinline>
     Use HTML to simulate the scenario of a small ball released from the center of a rotating hexagon. Consider the collision between the ball and the hexagon's edges, the gravity acting on the ball, and assume all collisions are perfectly elastic. (Prompt translated from Chinese)

Web Design

  GLM-4-32B-0414
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      Design a drawing board that supports custom function plotting, allowing adding and deleting custom functions, and assigning colors to functions. (Prompt translated from Chinese)

SVG Generation

  GLM-4-32B-0414
  GLM-4-32B-0414
      Create a misty Jiangnan scene using SVG. (Prompt translated from Chinese)

Search-Based Writing

For search-based writing tasks, we use the following system prompt to have the model respond based on search results:

请根据所给搜索返回结果对用户问题进行作答。

## 注意
1. 充分利用和整理收集到的信息,而不是简单的复制粘贴,生成符合用户要求且有深度的专业答案。
2. 所提供信息充分的情况下,你的回答需尽可能延长,从用户意图角度出发,提供具有足够信息量和多角度的回复。
3. 另外,并非所有的搜索结果都与用户问题密切相关,请仔细的甄别、筛选和利用。
4. 客观类问答的答案通常非常简短,你可以适当补充一到两句相关信息,以丰富内容。
5. 请确保你的回复格式美观、可读性强。对于多实体对比或列举,善用列表格式来帮助用户更好的理解信息。
6. 除非用户要求,否则你回答的语言请于用户提问语言保持一致。
7. 在适当情况下在句子末尾使用例如:【0†source】的格式引用搜索结果。

When using, you can obtain search results through methods such as RAG or WebSearch, and wrap them in observation, for example:

[
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": "Explore the common characteristics of children's literature, with a focus on its narrative techniques and thematic tendencies. This includes narrative techniques: common approaches in children's literature such as first-person, third-person, omniscient narrator, and interactive narration, and their influence on young readers. It also includes thematic tendencies: recurring themes in children's literature such as growth, adventure, friendship, and family, with an analysis of how these themes impact children's cognitive and emotional development. Additionally, other universal features such as the use of personification, repetitive language, symbolism and metaphor, and educational value should be considered. Please provide a detailed analytical report based on academic research, classic examples of children's literature, and expert opinions."
    },
    {
        "role": "observation",
        "content": "【{id}†{title}†{url}】\n{content}"
    },
    ...
]

For the above prompt, we use an internal or external search model to obtain the search results. Using the format shown above, we can generate the following analysis report:

Analysis Report on Common Characteristics of Children's Literature

Children's literature, as a literary genre specifically created for children, posses

Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.

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