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GLM vs. Nemotron

A side-by-side comparison of release history, capabilities, licensing and model sizes.

Attribute GLM Nemotron
Developer Z.ai NVIDIA
Current generation GLM-5.2 Nemotron 3 Ultra
Initial release 2022-08-04 2025-12-15
Instruct tuned Yes Yes
Coding Yes Yes
Finetuning Yes Yes
Open source Yes Yes
License MIT OpenMDW-1.1
Model sizes 744B (40B active) 550B (55B active)
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GLM

GLM is Z.ai's open-weight model family for reasoning, coding, agents, and long-horizon work. GLM-5.2 is the current generation with a one-million-token context window.

The GLM family began with bilingual pretrained models and evolved through the ChatGLM and GLM-4 generations. GLM-5 scaled the mixture-of-experts architecture to 744B total parameters with 40B active parameters. GLM-5.2, released in June 2026, adds a stable one-million-token context window, stronger long-horizon coding and agent performance, adjustable reasoning effort, and efficiency improvements for sparse attention. Its weights are available under the MIT license.

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Nemotron

Nemotron is NVIDIA's open model family for efficient reasoning, coding, long-context analysis, and agent orchestration. Nemotron 3 Ultra is the current flagship.

NVIDIA introduced the Nemotron 3 family in December 2025 with Nano, Super, and Ultra tiers. Nemotron 3 Ultra, released in June 2026, is a 550B-parameter hybrid Mamba-Transformer mixture-of-experts model with 55B active parameters and a one-million-token context window. It is optimized for long-running agent workflows, tool use, code, multilingual reasoning, and high-stakes retrieval. NVIDIA publishes the weights, training data, recipes, and fine-tuning workflows under the OpenMDW-1.1 license.

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