Z.ai: GLM 4.5VModel25/100 via “visual reasoning with chain-of-thought explanations”
GLM-4.5V is a vision-language foundation model for multimodal agent applications. Built on a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with 106B parameters and 12B activated parameters, it achieves state-of-the-art results in video understanding,...
Unique: Generates visual reasoning chains natively through the language model component while maintaining visual grounding, rather than using post-hoc explanation techniques — enables reasoning that is grounded in actual visual features rather than model internals
vs others: Provides more transparent reasoning than black-box vision models, and produces more visually-grounded explanations than text-only reasoning models, though less formally verifiable than symbolic reasoning systems