GLM 4.6: This NEW Chinese AI is INSANE (FREE!) 🤯

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GLM 4.6. This new free Chinese AI is insane. China just dropped a free AI that beats chat GPT at coding. It went to number three in the world in just two years. Most people have no idea this exists, but the few who do are saving thousands on AI. A Chinese company called Z.A.I. just released GLM 4.6. And it's not just another AI model. This thing is genuinely competing with Claude and Chat GPT. But nobody's talking about it. And that's exactly why you need to know about it right now. While everyone's paying $ 15 to $20 a month for Chat GPT or Claude, there's now a free alternative. And if you want the paid API version starting at just $9 a month, not 20, 9. The Chinese AI labs have been cooking in silence. First came Deep Seek, then Kimik 2, then Quen 3, now GLM 4.6, and each one keeps getting better. Here's what makes GLM4.6 different. It's built for a Gentic AI. That means it doesn't just chat. It actually does stuff. It can browse the web, write code, build entire applications, and it does it all on its own. Let's talk numbers. GLM4.5 ranked third in the world across 12 different benchmarks, and GLM 4.6 just improved on that even more. On the browse comp web browsing benchmark, GLM 4.5 scored 26.4% compared to Claude 4 Opus at 18.8%. That's a huge gap. For tool calling, it achieved a 90.6% success rate. Claude 4 Sonic scored 89.5%. Kim K 2 got 86.2%. Quen 3 coder only hit 77.1%. GLM 4.6 beats them all. In 74 real world coding tests inside the Clawude Code environment, GLM 4.6 outperformed Claude Sonor and other domestic models. On the CC Bench for real world tasks, it reached near par with Claude Sonet 4 with a 48.6% win rate. on swbench verified. It matched Claude's performance and it's completely open source and free to use. The model has 355 billion parameters, but only 32 billion are active at any time. That's what makes it so fast. It's using a mixture of experts architecture. When you ask a coding question, it activates the coding expert. When you ask about writing, it activates the writing expert. The context window is 200,000 tokens. You can feed it an entire book and it will remember everything. You can upload huge code bases, long research papers, entire project documentation. Now, if you want to scale your business, get more customers, and save hundreds of hours with AI automation, you need to check out my AI profit boardroom. It's the best place to learn how to actually use AI in your business. Right now, it has over a thousand members. Inside, you'll find step-by-step processes for everything from content creation to customer service to sales automation. Link is in the comments and description. Now let's talk about what you can actually do with this thing. First coding GLM4.6 can write entire applications from scratch. Look at this. I asked it to create a cyberpunk search engine website and it built the whole thing complete with neon colors, futuristic design, working search functionality, all production ready code. Or check this out. It created a full fitness app dashboard, user profiles, workout tracker, progress charts, complete with colors, icons, responsive design. Everything works. And here's a coffee shop landing page. Hero image, menu section, contact form, clean HTML, and CSS. Professional looking, ready to deploy. In real world tests, it matched Claude Sonic 4 in coding environments. It supports Python, JavaScript, Java, and every major programming language. And it's especially good at front-end development. On the tow bench, and BFCV3, Berkeley function calling leaderboard. GLM 4.5 match the performance of Clawude for Sonnet. The tool calling success rate is 90.6%. That's higher than Claude at 89.5%, Kimmy at 86.2% and Quen 3 at 77.1%. When it tries to use a tool or function, it works. Third, long context tasks. With that 200,000 token context window, you can do things other models can't handle. Fourth, presentations and documents. GLM 4.6 Six can create full slide decks, complete presentations with proper formatting, logical flow, and clean design. Now, here's what you're probably wondering. Is this actually free? Yes, the model itself is completely open source and free to download. You can run it locally if you have the hardware. The model weights are publicly available on Hogging Face and Model Scope. But if you don't want to run it locally, you can use their API. The API has costs, but they're incredibly low. about 11 to 20 cents per million input tokens, about 28 to 80 cents per million output tokens. Compare that to Chat GPT or Claude, which costs way more. Let me show you why this matters. If you're paying $20 a month for Chat GPT plus, that's $240 a year. But with GLM4.6, you're looking at $36 a year. You just saved over $200. If you're running a business with a team of five people, that's $1,000 saved per year. 10 people, 2,000. China is not playing around with AI anymore. In the last 6 months, Chinese AI labs went from nowhere to competing at the highest level. These models are trained for a fraction of the cost. Deepseek fee 3 cost about $6 million to train. GPT4 probably cost hundreds of millions and yet they're performing at similar levels. While American companies are closing up, Chinese labs are staying open. GLM 4.6 is open source and free to download. You can see the code, you can modify it, you can build on top of it. The model weights are publicly available. So, what should you actually do? First, go try it. You can download GLM4.6 for free and run it locally or use it through Z.AI's API platform if you prefer. Test it on your actual work. Second, if you're paying for Chat GPT or Claude, consider switching. You might find that GLM4.6 handles most of what you need. Third, if you're a developer or running a business, look into the API. The pricing is so good that you can build AI features into your products without breaking the bank. Fourth, keep an eye on Chinese AI. These companies are releasing new models constantly, and each release is better than the last. Now, if you want a complete system for using AI in your business, check out the AI money lab. We have an SOP and process for everything, and we have over 100 different use cases. You'll see exactly how to use tools like GLM 4.6 for real business tasks. Inside you'll get all the video notes, tutorials, and resources, plus access to a community of over 28,000 members. You'll see a checklist of 100 different tutorials, and we're adding new stuff every single day. Link is in the comments and description. Let me be clear, GLM 4.6 is not perfect. Claude still beats it on some coding tasks. Chat GPT might be better at creative writing, but for most business tasks, this thing holds its own, and the price makes it a no-brainer to at least try. Here's what I think is going to happen. Right now, most people don't know about GLM 4.6, but in 6 months, everyone will. The people who adopt early are going to have a huge advantage. Think about when Chat GPT first came out. The people who jumped on it immediately got a massive head start. Now, same thing here. This is your chance to get ahead before everyone else catches up. The model keeps getting better. Z.AI is actively developing it. They're listening to feedback. They're fixing bugs. They're adding features. And because it's open source, the community is contributing, too. Here's what you need to know about getting started. You have two options. One, download the model for free from hugging face or model scope and run it locally if you have the hardware. Two, use Z.AI's API platform which has low costs. Sign up for an account. Start with simple tasks, then move to more complex stuff. Test it against whatever you're currently using in. The paid coding plan is optional. It's $3 a month for light, 15 for pro. That gets you better rate limits and works with Claude Code, Klein, and other coding tools. But the base model is free. Don't sleep on the agentic capabilities. This is where GLM4.6 really shines. Instead of thinking of it as a chatbot, think of it as an assistant that can actually do tasks. Give it multi-step projects. Let it figure out the details. Two years ago, Chinese AI was nowhere. Fast forward to today and Chinese models are ranked third in the world. They're matching Claude and GPT on multiple benchmarks and they're doing it for a fraction of the cost. These companies are focused, they're efficient, and they're moving fast. While American companies are raising billions, Chinese companies are doing more with less. Join the AI profit boardroom to learn how to use these tools at scale, get the processes, the community, and the ongoing updates. Link in the comments and description. And if you need help with SEO and want to scale your organic traffic, you can book a free SEO strategy session with my team. We'll analyze your site, show you what's working, what's not, and give you a clear plan to get more customers from Google. Link is also in the comments and description. Models like GLM4.6 are proving that you don't need billions of dollars to build worldclass AI. The Chinese labs figured that out, and now we all get to benefit from it. So, don't sit on the sidelines. Go test it out today. And if you found this valuable, drop a comment below. Julian Goldie reads every comment. So, tell us what you think about GLM4.6 six and how you're planning to use it. That's it for this one.