GLM-4.6 vs Skywork-R1V3-38B

Zhipu AI

GLM-4.6, released by Zhipu AI in September 2025, is a large language model with approximately 357 billion parameters from the GLM-4 family, featuring an expanded 200K token context window. It supports strong mathematical reasoning, coding, and agentic orchestration tasks. GLM-4.6 targets enterprise-ready open-source deployments under an MIT license, with availability through Zhipu AI's Z.ai platform.

Kunlun Tech

Skywork-R1V3-38B, released by Kunlun Tech's Skywork AI team on July 9, 2025, is a 38 billion parameter multimodal reasoning model built on InternVL-38B with reinforcement learning post-training that enhances both visual and textual reasoning. It uses the GRPO algorithm and cold-start fine-tuning to improve reasoning across image and text modalities. Skywork-R1V3-38B targets open-source multimodal reasoning deployments requiring strong performance across vision-language benchmarks.