# Z.ai — GLM-OCR

- Company: Z.ai (z.ai)
- Announced: 2026-02-03T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: new-model
- Subject: GLM
- Models affected: GLM-OCR
- Source: https://docs.z.ai/release-notes/new-released#2026-02-03
- Record: https://forck.live/items/4452-glm-ocr

Z.ai launched GLM-OCR, a compact and high-performance optical character recognition model using a self-developed CogViT and GLM-0.5B encoder-decoder architecture with CLIP pre-training for robust visual semantic understanding.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://docs.z.ai/release-notes/new-released#2026-02-03:

> We’ve launched GLM-OCR, a compact and high-performance optical character recognition model powered by the self-developed CogViT and GLM-0.5B encoder-decoder architecture, enabling efficient cross-modal alignment through its dedicated connection layer.

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