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GLM vs. WizardLM

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

Attribute GLM WizardLM
Developer Z.ai WizardLM
Current generation GLM-5.2 –
Initial release 2022-08-04 2023-05-26
Instruct tuned Yes Yes
Coding Yes No
Finetuning Yes Yes
Open source Yes Yes
License MIT Noncommercial
Model sizes 744B (40B active) 7B, 13B, 70B, 8x22B
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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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WizardLM

WizardLM is a variant of LLaMA trained with complex instructions.

WizardLM is a LLM based on LLaMA trained using a new method, called Evol-Instruct, on complex instruction data. By using AI to "evolve" instructions, WizardLM outperforms similar LLaMA-based LLMs trained on simpler instruction data. On the 6th of July, 2023, WizardLM V1.1 was released with significantly improved performance, and as of 15 April 2024, WizardLM-2 was released with state-of-the-art performance.

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