The newest GLM-Image & CogView model is GLM-Image, released on January 14, 2026. It has been 269 days since then. The line has only 2 gaps between releases so far (156 days and 316 days), too few to know its usual rhythm.
How long it has been since the last release against the line's usual gap and its recent ones — the rhythm, not a date.
Every Monday, only when something shipped: the AI models that came out, what each one changed, and which lines are due next.
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Newest first — what each version changed versus the one before, in Z.ai's own numbers.
GLM-Image replaces CogView4-6B with an open model that pairs a 9B-parameter autoregressive generator with a 7B-parameter diffusion decoder that has a glyph encoder for text inside images, and costs $0.015 per image on the Z.ai API versus $0.01 for CogView-4.
Compared with CogView4-6B · the model it replaces
Costs developers 50% more per image than CogView-4
Price per image — what developers pay on the Z.ai API
$0.015 / image
up from $0.01 per image for CogView-4