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Figure 1: GLM-4.5-Air · diagram by Sebastian Raschka · click to zoom
Sparse MoEZ.ai 🇨🇳 · July 28, 2025

GLM-4.5-Air (106B)

Compact GLM-4.5 companion that keeps the same agent-oriented sparse MoE recipe at a smaller serving footprint.

Key detail

Shrinks the GLM-4.5 layout to 46 layers, keeps the dense warmup, and inherits the MTP training recipe.

Total params

106B

Active / token

12B

Context

128K

Fact sheet

Scale
106B total, 12B active (11.3% active)
Context window
128,000 tokens
Decoder type
Sparse MoE
Attention
GQA
Layer mix
46 GQA
KV cache / token (bf16)
184 KiB · High
License
MIT License
Released

Efficiency

Parameters active per token

11%

12B of 106B weights run for each token.

KV cache per token (bf16)

184 KiB

Smaller than 28% of models in the atlas. How it’s calculated

AA Intelligence Index v4.3.2

Source

11.1

Scientific
3.5

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