z.ai debuts faster, cheaper GLM-5 Turbo model for agents and 'claws' — but it's not open-source

VentureBeat
Mar 16, 2026, 3:14 pm101 pts
Chinese AI startup Z.ai, known for its powerful, open source GLM family of large language models (LLMs), has introduced GLM-5-Turbo, a new, proprietary variant of its open source GLM-5 model aimed at agent-driven workflows, with the company positioning it as a faster model tuned for OpenClaw-style tasks such as…

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