Zai GLM 4.6: What We Learned From 100 Million Open Source Downloads — Yuxuan Zhang, Z.ai

GLM 4.6 is the only open-source model currently tied for #1 on the LMSYS Chatbot Arena, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet. In this talk, Zhang Yuxuan from zAI breaks down the technical roadmap that led to over 100 million downloads across the GLM family. Zhang deep dives into the specific training recipes behind GLM 4.6, including their move to single-stage Reinforcement Learning (RL), the "SLIME" RL framework for handling complex agent trajectories, and how they structured 15 ...