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What Zhipu Qingyan is

Zhipu Qingyan is the ChatGLM conversational assistant published by Zhipu, running on the GLM family of open-source models. It covers intelligent question answering, long document summarisation, content creation, code assistance and knowledge retrieval, and accepts text, voice and images. Access spans web, mobile apps and a WeChat mini-program.

What you can do with it

• Summarise a long paper or report
• Ask follow-up questions across many turns
• Get help understanding and writing code
• Draft structured content quickly
• Use voice and images alongside text

Who it is for

• Students and researchers handling dense material
• Office users working across documents
• People using several devices through the day

What to watch out for

• Long summaries can drop caveats that matter; check the source for anything you will quote
• Several Zhipu-branded surfaces exist, so confirm which one holds your conversations and account
• Uploaded documents leave your machine, and confidentiality needs judging case by case
• Open-source lineage means model versions change often; re-test notable behaviours after updates