CogVLM

Zhipu AI · 2023 · Multimodal LLM · China

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A · App: No
B · Built By: Zhipu AI
C · CEO & Politics: Zhang Peng — Not publicly documented (PRC-based; operates under Chinese regulatory environment)
D · Date: 2023
E · Expertise: Intermediate+
F · Free Tier: Yes
G · Generates: Text only
H · Deployment: Cloud + Local (open weights)
I · Inputs: Text+Image+Audio
J · Jurisdiction: China
K · Key Staffers: Zhang Peng (CEO), Tang Jie (Chief Scientist), Liu Debing (Chairman)
L · Languages: Chinese-primary
M · Model Type: Multimodal LLM
N · Safety Issues: None reported
O · Open Source: Yes — open weights
P · Pricing: Free (open weights, CogVLM License: free commercial use after registration)
Q · AIDb Rating: [UNKNOWN]
R · What Makes It Special: CogVLM, an open visual language foundation model that adds a trainable visual expert module to the attention and FFN layers of a frozen pretrained language model for deep vision-language fusion without losing NLP performance; CogVLM-17B set state-of-the-art results on 10 cross-modal benchmarks and ranked second on VQAv2, OKVQA, TextVQA and COCO captioning, matching or beating PaLI-X 55B.
S · Stock / Status: HK$622 (2513.HK, Sep 28, 2026)
T · Training Cutoff: [UNKNOWN]
U · Users: [UNKNOWN]
V · Voice Chat: No
W · Weights: Downloadable
X · X Handle: @ZhipuAI
Y · Year Founded: [UNKNOWN]
Z · Bottom Line: Open-weights Multimodal LLM from Zhipu AI, released 2023.

Data completeness 85% · Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗

“CogVLM.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/cogvlm.html