Zhipu AI (智谱)

Zhipu AI / BigModel GLM series — bilingual models with multimodal and tool capabilities.

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)

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"

Capabilities and pricing are tracked per model. Use GET /v1/models?provider=zhipu and each model's capabilities array as the authoritative source rather than relying on a hardcoded list.

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

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)

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"

Capabilities and pricing are tracked per model. Use GET /v1/models?provider=zhipu and each model's capabilities array as the authoritative source rather than relying on a hardcoded list.

Overview

Key features

Using Zhipu AI with Yunxin

Usage example

Available models

Official resources

On this page

Zhipu AI (智谱)

Overview

Key features

Using Zhipu AI with Yunxin

Usage example

Available models

Official resources

On this page