On February 11, news emerged that Zhipu is set to launch its latest flagship model, the GLM-5, in the late hours of the same day, February 11, 2026. This cutting-edge model attains open-source SOTA (State-of-the-Art) performance in both Coding and Agent capabilities. It offers a programming experience in real-world scenarios that closely rivals that of Claude Opus 4.5, with a notable edge in tackling complex system engineering projects and long-duration Agent tasks. Earlier, The Information had revealed that the open-source model Pony Alpha, which was made available on the OpenRouter marketplace, was, in fact, an early iteration of Zhipu's GLM-5.
