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Support · GLM-4-9B-Chat

Will it last?

Ownership levelLimitednone·limited·partial·substantial·fullAnalytical input D ยท 52.8/100

This page is a projection of the one entry record, the Transparency factor that Support covers. The full verdict is set by all four factors together, floor-weighted so the weakest caps the whole.

Which domain expands which factor
  • AssessUse & modify + Transparency
  • ImplementData control + Reliability
  • UseReliability
  • SupportTransparency

Common problems & fixes

The recurring issues are 1M-context memory blow-ups, older chat-template / tool-call conventions that differ from the current GLM line, and quant-quality trade-offs. Not exhaustive - the community around this widely-used 2024 model is the practical first stop.

Versions, changelog & cadence

The original GLM-4-9B-Chat / -Chat-1M (and the glm-4-9b base) are on the THUDM organisation. For new work they are superseded by GLM-4-9B-0414 and the 4.5/4.6 line (the glm entry). The Hugging Face revision hash is the changelog anchor.

Security / vulnerability disclosure

A licence contact exists (license@zhipuai.cn), but no formal vulnerability-disclosure / security policy was found for the weights. Factor this into your own incident-response plan.

Community & support channels

The THUDM Hugging Face organisation and GitHub, plus a community around this widely-used 2024 small model.

Deprecation / end-of-life policy

No published deprecation or end-of-life policy. The model is effectively superseded by the current GLM line but remains downloadable, with no documented sunset commitment - recorded as a gap.

Tracked known issues

The standing issues are the revocable, registration-gated licence, dated capability, China-aligned alignment, and the absence of a first-party guard model. See Assess for the detail.

How this scores

The ownership factor this domain covers, drawn from the one entry record.

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TransparencyDo you know what it is: weights, training, behaviour, and legible terms?

Moderate

Weights are inspectable and there is a model card, but training data and code are closed and the model carries China-aligned alignment you cannot inspect - open weights but closed process, so moderate.

How this scores (AOI sub-dimensions)
Provenance3/5how well we can trace and verify what went into the modelVerified THUDM org on Hugging Face, safetensors with checksums, clear canonical source, no malicious-checkpoint incident (checklist ~4/8).
Governance3/5how accountable and well-documented the publisher isActive, named publisher (Zhipu AI / THUDM) with a verified org and a licence contact (license@zhipuai.cn), meeting the score-3 anchor.
What this means for adoptionYou have only limited ownership of the original GLM-4-9B-Chat: the custom glm-4 licence is revocable, gates commercial use behind registration, restricts fields of use, and forces a 'glm-4' name prefix and 'Built with glm-4' attribution on every derivative - so use-and-modify is weak and your continued-use control is contingent. Combined with dated capability, ownership lands at limited, the low end of the GLM family and well below the MIT GLM line (the `glm` entry, substantial). Use this checkpoint only if you specifically need it: complete the commercial registration, honour the naming and field-of-use terms, and account for the revocable grant - otherwise adopt the MIT GLM models instead.

Sources

The same evidence records as the entry sheet. Read means the text was verified; unverified means it is known to exist but not yet read.

Licenceread2026-08-03
THUDM/glm-4-9b LICENSE, read: [Sec 2] "a non-exclusive, worldwide, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable, royalty-free copyright license"; free for academic research; "Commercial users must complete registration ...
Model cardread2026-08-03
GLM-4-9B-Chat model card on the verified THUDM HF org: a 9B dense chat model with a 128K context (and a 1M-context GLM-4-9B-Chat-1M variant), safetensors; broad serving (vLLM, transformers, llama.cpp, Ollama) and extensive community quants; a mid-2024 release.
Third-party analysisunverified2026-08-03
GLM-4-9B-Chat was a capable small model at its mid-2024 release but is dated by 2026 and superseded within its own family by GLM-4-9B-0414 and the 4.5/4.6 line.
Third-party analysisunverified2026-08-03
GLM chat models carry China-aligned alignment on politically sensitive topics and ship no companion guard model; the original 9B's safety tuning is older/lighter than current practice.
Third-party analysisunverified2026-08-03
The glm-4 licence is revocable and gates commercial use behind registration with field-of-use and naming restrictions (non-FOSS), so no open-source exemption applies; no EU copyright policy or training-content summary is published, and the licence is governed by PRC law.