Zhipu AI (智谱)

Overview

Zhipu AI (智谱AI) is one of China's leading AI companies and a spin-off from Tsinghua University. Its BigModel platform serves the GLM (General Language Model) series, with strong bilingual Chinese-English performance.

Official Website: https://open.bigmodel.cn API Documentation: https://open.bigmodel.cn/dev/api

Key features

• Bilingual — Optimized for Chinese with strong English support
• Vision & video understanding — Image and video analysis
• Embeddings — Text embeddings for semantic search
• Image & video generation — Text-to-image and text-to-video
• Audio — Text-to-speech and speech-to-text
• Web search & code execution — Built-in tools for grounded answers
• Knowledge base — Retrieval over uploaded documents
• Thinking mode — Extended reasoning for complex problems

Using Zhipu AI with Yunxin

Address Zhipu models using the provider/model convention by prefixing with zhipu/ (for example, zhipu/glm-4). Requests use the same Yunxin base URL (https://api.yuhuanstudio.com/v1) and your Yunxin sk- API key.

Usage example

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key=os.environ["YUNXIN_API_KEY"],
    base_url="https://api.yuhuanstudio.com/v1"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="zhipu/glm-4",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "你好，请介绍一下智谱AI"}
    ]
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)

import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  apiKey: process.env.YUNXIN_API_KEY,
  baseURL: "https://api.yuhuanstudio.com/v1",
});

const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "zhipu/glm-4",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "你好，请介绍一下智谱AI" }],
});

console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);

curl https://api.yuhuanstudio.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $YUNXIN_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
    "model": "zhipu/glm-4",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "你好，请介绍一下智谱AI"}]
  }'

Available models

Query the live catalog with the Models API:

curl "https://api.yuhuanstudio.com/v1/models?provider=zhipu" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $YUNXIN_API_KEY"

Official resources

• Zhipu AI Website
• API Documentation
• Pricing