ChatGLM-6BOpen Weight
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ChatGLM-6B is an AI model released by Z.ai on Tuesday, Mar 14 2023. It is an open-weight model — the trained weights are available to download and run. It is a 6B parameterThe learned values that shape how a model responds. B means billion and T means trillion. For mixture-of-experts models, the total count is larger than the number active for each token. Parameter count alone does not measure quality. model with a 2k token context windowHow much information the model can work with in one request, measured in tokens — pieces of words or other data. This includes your question, attachments, conversation and reply. Limits can vary by model variant and provider..
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ChatGLM-6B was introduced in March 2023 as a bilingual conversational model focused on Chinese and English. Developed through the GLM research line associated with Tsinghua University and Zhipu AI, it made a relatively small assistant checkpoint available for local experimentation. The release used the General Language Model architecture rather than simply repackaging a Llama checkpoint.
Its approximately 6.2 billion parameters and support for quantization made local inference more accessible than with much larger models. The repository described running a quantized version with as little as 6 GB of GPU memory. The code and weights had separate licensing terms, so the presence of an open code repository did not by itself grant unrestricted commercial use of the model.
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ChatGLM-6B was released by Z.ai on Tuesday, Mar 14 2023.