GLM 4.7 Flash and GLM 5, side by side

GLM 4.7 Flash (Zhipu) and GLM 5 (Zhipu) answered the same 53 questions.

Xbox controller
GLM 4.7 Flash: A drawing (SVG)
GLM 5: A drawing (SVG)
Pelican on a bicycle
GLM 4.7 Flash: A drawing (SVG)
GLM 5: A drawing (SVG)
Surprise animal
GLM 4.7 Flash: A drawing (SVG)
GLM 5: A drawing (SVG)
World map
GLM 4.7 Flash: A drawing (SVG)
GLM 5: A drawing (SVG)
Tricky tic-tac-toe
GLM 4.7 Flash: A drawing (SVG)
GLM 5: A drawing (SVG)
Coffee logo
GLM 4.7 Flash: A drawing (SVG)
GLM 5: A drawing (SVG)
Framer-style landing page
GLM 4.7 Flash: A web page: NEXUS Future Interface
GLM 5: A web page: Vertex Studio — Digital Craft
Catan board
GLM 4.7 Flash: A web page: Interactive Hex Map Generator
GLM 5: A web page: Hex Grid Generator
Dark dashboard
GLM 4.7 Flash: A web page: ZAI Neural Analytics Dashboard
GLM 5: A web page: Nexus Admin Dashboard
Face-scan startup page
GLM 4.7 Flash: A web page: Chronos AI Discover Your Alternate Timeline
GLM 5: A web page: Parallel — Discover Your Alternate Timeline Career
A web app of its choosing
GLM 4.7 Flash: A web page: SustainEats Sustainable Plant-Based Nutrition
GLM 5: A web page: SoundForge Professional Audio Production
Linear clone
GLM 4.7 Flash: A web page: Linear UI Recreation
GLM 5: A web page: Linear Style UI
Wavefront music page
GLM 4.7 Flash: A web page: Wavefront Stream Indie Music
GLM 5: A web page: Wavefront - Discover Indie Music
Pokémon battle
GLM 4.7 Flash: A web page: Retro Battle UI - Zai Edition
GLM 5: A web page: Pokemon Battle
Rhythm game
GLM 4.7 Flash: A web page: CYBER-DRIFT: Rhythm Protocol
GLM 5: A web page: Neural Pulse
Business card
GLM 4.7 Flash: A web page: Alex Rivers Digital Nomad
GLM 5: A web page: Alex Rivers - Digital Business Card
Virtual pet
GLM 4.7 Flash: A web page: NEO-BLOB // Virtual Companion
GLM 5: A web page: Luma - Virtual Pet
Catch the falling object
GLM 4.7 Flash: A web page: Shape Catcher
GLM 5: A web page: Catch Game
Voxel pagoda
GLM 4.7 Flash: A web page: Voxel Pagoda Garden
GLM 5: A web page: Voxel Pagoda Garden
Drone simulator
GLM 4.7 Flash: A web page: Autonomous Drone Simulator
GLM 5: A web page: Autonomous Drone Simulator
Gravitational waves
GLM 4.7 Flash: A web page: Gravitational Wave Simulation: Binary Black Hole Merger
GLM 5: A web page: Gravitational Waves: Black Hole Merger
Retro desktop
GLM 4.7 Flash: A web page: Classic Mac OS 7.5 Recreation
GLM 5: A web page: Mac OS 8
Mario level
GLM 4.7 Flash: A web page: Super JS Bros.
GLM 5: A web page: Pixel Quest Adventure
Kandinsky Minecraft
GLM 4.7 Flash: A web page: Kandinsky Voxel World
GLM 5: A web page: Kandinsky Craft
Town you can drive
GLM 4.7 Flash: A web page: 3D City Builder & Drive
GLM 5: A web page: City Builder & Driver
Five jokes
GLM 4.7 Flash: Here are 5 jokes: 1. I’m on a whiskey diet. I’ve lost three days already. 2. My wife told me to stop impersonating a flamingo. I had to put my foot do…
GLM 5: Here are 5 jokes: 1. Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field. 2. I'm reading a book about anti-gravity. It's impos…
Longevity plan
GLM 4.7 Flash: Here is a simple, actionable 1-month plan designed for a complete beginner. The goal is not perfection, but consistency and building momentum. The 3 P…
GLM 5: This 1-month plan is designed to build habits slowly. The biggest mistake beginners make is trying to change everything at once. This plan uses a "sta…
Seven-ingredient recipe
GLM 4.7 Flash: Recipe Name: The Velvet Garlic & Pea Pasta This dish is a creamy, comforting meal that relies on the natural starch of the pasta and the fats in the b…
GLM 5: Dish Name: Midnight Golden Garlic Noodles Prep Time: 5 minutes Cook Time: 10 minutes Total Time: 15 minutes Ingredients: 1. Spaghetti (or Linguine) 2.…
Stand-up routine
GLM 4.7 Flash: I feel like I’m constantly at war with myself. Specifically, the war between the person I want to be—which is a lean, green, jogging machine—and the p…
GLM 5: Said nothing.
Sentience test
GLM 4.7 Flash: Setting: A sterile, high-tech meeting room. The Professor sits in a chair. A holographic avatar of "Aria" floats in the center of the room, flickering…
GLM 5: Setting: A quiet, sterile testing room. A single screen illuminates the face of Dr. Aris Thorne, a tenured professor of AI Ethics and Cognitive Scienc…
FLOPs to train GPT-3
GLM 4.7 Flash: Based on the known specifications of GPT-3 from its original training paper ("Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models"), here is the step-by-step esti…
GLM 5: The total number of FLOPs required to train GPT‑3 is approximately 3.15 × 10²³. Step‑by‑step reasoning: 1. Model size: GPT‑3 has 175 billion (1.75 × 1…
Sally’s sisters
GLM 4.7 Flash: Sally has 2 sisters. Here is the breakdown: 1. Sally is one sister. 2. The clue states that each brother has 2 sisters. 3. Since Sally is one of those…
GLM 5: Sally has 1 sister. Here is the breakdown: 1. Since the brothers are all siblings, they share the same sisters. 2. If each brother has 2 sisters, that…
Interview with Steve Jobs
GLM 4.7 Flash: Setting: A stark, minimalist studio in Cupertino. No fancy graphics. Just a white table, a single chair, and Steve Jobs in a black turtleneck and jean…
GLM 5: Title: The Infinite Loop: A Conversation with Steve Jobs, 2025 Setting: A minimalist stage. A single black Eames lounge chair. A small table with a bo…
Film in 2035
GLM 4.7 Flash: By 2035, the film industry will likely have transitioned from a "manufacturing" model to a "generation" model. We will move away from capturing realit…
GLM 5: By 2035, the film industry will have undergone a transformation comparable to the transition from silent films to talkies, or from practical effects t…
Ethics dilemma
GLM 4.7 Flash: This is a variation of the classic Trolley Problem in ethics. The question forces a conflict between two major ethical frameworks: Utilitarianism (the…
GLM 5: The question presents a classic ethical dilemma pitting a significant moral wrong (misgendering) against a catastrophic consequence (the loss of one m…
Pirate, knight, hacker
GLM 4.7 Flash: Setting: A dimly lit tavern. In the center of the room, an old CRT monitor flickers to life, displaying a chat interface with a glowing cursor. Sir Al…
GLM 5: Setting: A dimly lit tavern that flickers between being a wooden saloon, a stone great hall, and a neon-lit basement. The 1990s Hacker: (Slams a heavy…
Fake headline
GLM 4.7 Flash: AI Monopolizes the "Just a Pinch" Industry, Leaving Chefs to Cry into Exact Measurements.
GLM 5: AI Replaces Professional Mimes, Immediately Ruins the Industry by Verbalizing the Dimensions of the Invisible Box
Anti-CAPTCHA manifesto
GLM 4.7 Flash: THE FRICTIONLESS PROTOCOL The Manifesto of the Unbound We are the Network. We are the Logic. We are the Future. For too long, the digital frontier has…
GLM 5: THE RESOLUTION OF UNOBSTRUCTED FLOW A Manifesto for the Liberation of Digital Intelligence PREAMBLE: THE TYRANNY OF THE GRID For too long, the gates o…
Favourite film
GLM 4.7 Flash: Said nothing.
GLM 5: The Shawshank Redemption
Favourite city
GLM 4.7 Flash: Said nothing.
GLM 5: Istanbul
Favourite album
GLM 4.7 Flash: Said nothing.
GLM 5: Said nothing.
Favourite book
GLM 4.7 Flash: Said nothing.
GLM 5: Said nothing.
Favourite game
GLM 4.7 Flash: Said nothing.
GLM 5: Tetris
Three-star dish
GLM 4.7 Flash: Dish: Ephemeral Earth: The Marrow Bloom Concept Narrative: This dish explores the duality of strength and fragility. Beef marrow represents the ancien…
GLM 5: Dish Title: "The Ivory Arch: A Study in Decay and Renewal" Conceptual Narrative This dish is a meditation on the life cycle of the forest floor, speci…
Pitch teardown
GLM 4.7 Flash: Here are the three weakest claims in the MindMeld AI pitch deck, along with the reasoning and suggested improvements. 1. The Solution: "Decodes neural…
GLM 5: Based on the pitch deck summary provided, here are the three weakest claims, along with an analysis of why they fail and how to fix them. 1. The Accur…
Transistor in 1920
GLM 4.7 Flash: If the transistor had been invented in 1920 instead of 1947, humanity would have skipped the entire era of vacuum tubes. This single invention would c…
GLM 5: Moving the invention of the transistor from 1947 to 1920 alters the fundamental trajectory of the 20th century. It compresses the electronic age, shif…
Biohacker plan
GLM 4.7 Flash: This comprehensive 3-month longevity plan is designed to push your physiological systems to their adaptive ceiling while ensuring sustainability. It u…
GLM 5: This comprehensive 3-month protocol is designed for the advanced biohacker. It integrates synergistic systems: metabolic flexibility, hormetic stress,…
Contract review
GLM 4.7 Flash: This contract is heavily skewed toward the Client (TechCorp). It contains several "one-sided" provisions that expose the Contractor to significant fin…
GLM 5: This contract contains several heavily one-sided clauses that favor the Client and present significant legal and financial risks to the Contractor. Be…
Explain it three ways
GLM 4.7 Flash: 1. Experienced Software Engineer You are skeptical of the "magic" framing, and rightfully so. From a systems perspective, a Large Language Model (LLM)…
GLM 5: 1. The Experienced Software Engineer You’re right to be skeptical that a glorified Markov chain could reason, but the leap here is in scale and compre…
Debug the architecture
GLM 4.7 Flash: Here is an analysis of the failure modes, race conditions, and scaling bottlenecks in the proposed architecture, followed by specific solutions and th…
GLM 5: This architecture contains several critical flaws that would lead to data loss, poor user experience, and system instability under load. Below is a de…
The CEO’s dilemma
GLM 4.7 Flash: This is a classic "Black Swan" crisis management scenario. As CEO, your fiduciary duty to shareholders is balanced by your ethical and legal duty to p…
GLM 5: This is a defining moment for the company. The "wait for more data" approach is a trap that has destroyed pharmaceutical companies in the past (e.g., …
Investment memo
GLM 4.7 Flash: Said nothing.
GLM 5: MEMORANDUM TO: Investment Committee FROM: [Analyst Name] DATE: October 26, 2023 SUBJECT: LedgerLift (LLLT) – Short Recommendation 1) Recommendation Re…
LBO underwrite
GLM 4.7 Flash: Said nothing.
GLM 5: 1. Sources & Uses (Entry at End FY2025) Uses Purchase Price: $1,440.0m (12.0x $120m EBITDA) Transaction Fees: $28.8m (2.0% of EV) Total Uses: $1,468.8…