GLM-5V-Turbo: Toward a Native Foundation Model for Multimodal Agents
Abstract
We present GLM-5V-Turbo, a step toward native foundation models for multimodal agents. As foundation models are increasingly deployed in real environments, agentic capability depends not only on language reasoning, but also on the ability to perceive, interpret, and act over heterogeneous contexts such as images, videos, webpages, documents, GUIs. GLM-5V-Turbo is built around this objective: multimodal perception is integrated as a core component of reasoning, planning, tool use, and execution, rather than as an auxiliary interface to a language model. This report summarizes the main improvements behind GLM-5V-Turbo across model design, multimodal training, reinforcement learning, toolchain expansion, and integration with agent frameworks. These developments lead to strong performance in multimodal coding, visual tool use, and framework-based agentic tasks, while preserving competitive text-only coding capability. More importantly, our development process offers practical insights for building multimodal agents, highlighting the central role of multimodal perception, hierarchical optimization, and reliable end-to-end verification.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2604.26752,
title = {GLM-5V-Turbo: Toward a Native Foundation Model for Multimodal Agents},
author = {V Team and Wenyi Hong and Xiaotao Gu and Ziyang Pan and Zhen Yang and Yuting Wang and Yue Wang and Yuanchang Yue and Yu Wang and Yanling Wang and Yan Wang and Xijun Liu and Wenmeng Yu and Weihan Wang and Wei Li and Shuaiqi Duan and Sheng Yang and Ruiliang Lv and Mingdao Liu and Lihang Pan and Ke Ning and Junhui Ji and Jinjiang Wang and Jing Chen and Jiazheng Xu and Jiale Zhu and Jiale Cheng and Ji Qi and Guobing Gan and Guo Wang and Cong Yao and Zijun Dou and Zihao Zhou and Zihan Wang and Zhiqi Ge and Zhijie Li and Zhenyu Hou and Zhao Xue and Zehui Wang and Zehan Qi and Zehai He and Yutao Zhang and Yusen Liu and Yukuo Cen and Yuchen Li and Yuan Wang and Yu Yang and Yongbin Liu and Yijian Lu and Yifan Xu and Yanzi Wang and Yanxiao Zhao and Yanfeng Wang and Yadong Xue and Yabo Xu and Xinyu Zhang and Xinyu Liu and Xiao Liu and Wenyi Zhao and Wenkai Li and Tianyu Tong and Tianshu Zhang and Shudan Zhang and Shengdong Yan and Qinkai Zheng and Mingde Xu and Licheng Bao and lat Long long and Jiaxing Xu and Jiaxin Fan and Jiawen Qian and Jiali Chen and Jiahui Lin and Jiadai Sun and Haozhi Zheng and Haoran Wang and Haochen Li and Hanyu Lai and Han Xu and Fan Yang and Dan Zhang and Da Yin and Chuangxin Zhao and Chengcheng Wu and Boyan Shi and Bowen Lv and Bowei Jia and Bo Li and Bin Chen and Baoxu Wang and Peng Zhang and Debing Liu and Bin Xu and Juanzi Li and Minlie Huang and Yuxiao Dong and Jie Tang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.26752},
year = {2026}
}