The Zhipu AI open platform has announced the free release of the GLM-4-Flash model, aimed at promoting innovation in AI applications. This model is known for its speed and cost-effectiveness, suitable for quick response to simple tasks, supporting multi-turn dialogue, web browsing, function calls, and long-text reasoning, covering 26 languages. Through optimization techniques such as adaptive weight quantization, parallelization, batching, and speculative sampling, GLM-4-Flash significantly reduces inference costs and has acquired over 10TB of high-quality multilingual data during the pre-training stage.

Beijing Zhipu Huazhang Technology Co., Ltd. recently announced that it will provide the API interface for its GLM-4-Flash large language model free to the public to promote the popularization and application of large model technology. The GLM-4-Flash model shows significant advantages in speed and performance, particularly in inference speed, by employing adaptive weight quantization and parallel processing technologies.