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GLM-4.5

Active Parameters

355B

Context Length

128K

Modality

Multimodal

Architecture

Mixture of Experts (MoE)

License

MIT License

Release Date

28 Jul 2025

Knowledge Cutoff

Jan 2025

System Requirements

VRAM requirements for different quantization methods and context sizes

1,024 tokens

747.42 GB VRAM

Consumer

41x RTX 4090

24GB VRAM

Datacenter

11x NVIDIA A100

80GB VRAM

Apple Silicon

9x Apple M3 Max

128GB VRAM

128,000 tokens

799.85 GB VRAM

Consumer

45x RTX 4090

24GB VRAM

Datacenter

12x NVIDIA A100

80GB VRAM

Apple Silicon

9x Apple M3 Max

128GB VRAM

Architecture Diagram

Input TokensToken EmbeddingPosition: AbsoluteHidden: 5.1k · Context: 128K · Vocab: 151.6kx 96 layersRMSNormPre-AttentionMulti-Head Attention96Q / 8KV headsHead dim: 128+RMSNormPre-FFNSparse MoE FFN (8/160 experts)SwiGLUIntermediate: 1.5k+Final RMSNormOutput Logits

Evaluation Benchmarks

Rank

#81

BenchmarkScoreRank

Professional Knowledge

MMLU Pro

0.81

23

Graduate-Level QA

GPQA

0.791

25

General Text

Text Arena

1411

100

Rankings

Overall Rank

#81

Coding Rank

-

About GLM-4.5

GLM-4.5 is Z.ai's 355B-parameter flagship Mixture-of-Experts model activating 32B parameters for advanced systems engineering and agentic workflows. It features dual Thinking/Non-Thinking modes, native function calling, and a 128K context window.

Technical Specifications

Attention

Attention Structure

Multi-Head Attention

Attention Heads

96

Key-Value Heads

8

Attention Head Dimension

128

Position Embedding

Absolute Position Embedding

RoPE Theta

1,000,000

Sliding Window Attention

No

Sliding Window Size

-

Sliding Window Ratio

-

Linear Attention

-

Linear Attention Ratio

-

Normalization

RMS Normalization

Activation Function

SwigLU

Dimensions

Hidden Dimension Size

5,120

Number of Layers

96

FFN Intermediate Size (Dense)

1,536

Multi-Token Prediction Heads

1

Tokenizer

Vocabulary Size

151,552

Mixture of Experts

Total Expert Parameters

32.0B

Number of Experts

160

Active Experts

8

Shared Experts

1

FFN Intermediate Size (per Expert)

1,536

Dense Layers Before MoE

3

About GLM Family

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