AutoGLM Phone 9B is Zhipu's on-device AI breakthrough — designed to run directly on smartphones for autonomous phone operation, web browsing, and app control tasks.
AutoGLM Phone 9B is an AI model released 2025 by Zhipu AI, a leading organization in large language model research. Phone/device automation specialist — designed for mobile UI interaction, app control, and device automation tasks. With 9B and a a large context window context window, AutoGLM Phone 9B is designed to excel across a range of demanding tasks — from software engineering and mathematical problem-solving to multilingual content generation and long-document analysis.
AutoGLM Phone 9B uses a dense transformer architecture with 9B of parameters, all of which are active for every input token. Dense architectures provide predictable, consistent behavior across diverse task types — there are no "cold" experts to warm up, and quality is uniform across prompts. Zhipu AI's training pipeline combined large-scale pretraining on a large-scale multilingual pretraining dataset with supervised fine-tuning and alignment techniques (RLHF or DPO), producing AutoGLM Phone 9B's characteristic balance of capability, helpfulness, and safety.
As of 2026-10-16, AutoGLM Phone 9B by Zhipu AI demonstrates measurable performance on standard AI evaluation benchmarks. On AndroidWorld — which measures model performance on specialized evaluation tasks — it achieves 36.2%. These scores place AutoGLM Phone 9B — at 9B of parameters — in a competitive position within its model class. Note that benchmark scores reflect controlled evaluation conditions; real-world performance varies by task, prompt design, and domain specificity.
The primary strengths of AutoGLM Phone 9B are: Phone/mobile UI agent — controls Android and iOS interfaces autonomously; 9B multilingual scale; Novel use case: AI that operates phones via GUI interaction. These make it particularly well-suited for Mobile automation and phone agent applications, Agentic AI for mobile testing and automation. Users working on complex, multi-step problems benefit most from AutoGLM Phone 9B's ability to maintain coherence across long inputs and produce structured, verifiable outputs.
Like all current AI systems, AutoGLM Phone 9B has limitations: Specialized for phone automation — not a general LLM; Edge case reliability varies. For production deployments, validating outputs against authoritative sources — especially for domain-specific or time-sensitive information — remains best practice. Zhipu AI continues to improve AutoGLM Phone 9B through ongoing research.
AutoGLM Phone 9B is available on LITHOVEX AI with a free account. Unlike direct API access — which requires billing setup, API key management, and per-token charges — LITHOVEX AI provides a seamless browser interface with no setup required, making AutoGLM Phone 9B accessible to students, researchers, developers, and early-stage teams globally.
As of 2026-10-16, AutoGLM Phone 9B by Zhipu AI demonstrates measurable performance on standard AI evaluation benchmarks. On AndroidWorld — which measures model performance on specialized evaluation tasks — it achieves 36.2%. These scores place AutoGLM Phone 9B — at 9B of parameters — in a competitive position within its model class. Note that benchmark scores reflect controlled evaluation conditions; real-world performance varies by task, prompt design, and domain specificity.
GLM-based phone agent, 9B, multilingual for mobile automation
The training pipeline for AutoGLM Phone 9B involves multiple stages: large-scale pretraining on diverse multilingual text and code corpora to develop broad world knowledge, followed by supervised fine-tuning on instruction-response pairs, and alignment techniques such as RLHF or DPO. Each stage refines the model's helpfulness, accuracy, and safety. Zhipu AI's research team — based in China — has optimized AutoGLM Phone 9B for the specific capability profile described above.
Inference efficiency: AutoGLM Phone 9B at 9B is designed to deliver quality outputs at practical serving speeds. Its context capacity supports complex multi-turn conversations without quality degradation.
Getting started with AutoGLM Phone 9B on LITHOVEX AI takes under two minutes. Follow these steps:
For best results with AutoGLM Phone 9B: provide specific, context-rich prompts; include examples when generating code; specify output format when structure matters; break complex tasks into focused sub-questions.
Autonomous smartphone task completion (booking, searching, ordering)
Mobile app testing automation using natural language instructions
Accessibility AI for users with mobility challenges
AI-powered mobile workflow automation
Phone agent applications for Chinese consumer market
Zhipu AI (THUDM — Tsinghua University Data Mining Group) is a Beijing-based AI research company founded in 2019, spun out of Tsinghua University — China's top engineering institution. Zhipu AI developed the GLM (General Language Model) family, pioneering autoregressive blank infilling as an alternative to GPT-style pretraining. GLM-4 and GLM-5 models excel at bilingual Chinese-English processing, business document handling, and agentic tool-use workflows. Zhipu's commercial products include ChatGLM and CodeGeeX, widely adopted in Chinese enterprise. As of 2024, the company has raised over $400 million in funding and employs hundreds of researchers.
Funding: $400M+ raised
Founded: 2019, headquartered in China.
AutoGLM Phone 9B by Zhipu AI competes in a field with several strong alternatives. Below is a detailed side-by-side comparison against commonly listed alternatives, using benchmark data and capability profiles in the catalog.
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AutoGLM Phone 9B is released under GLM Model License, which means you can download and run it on your own hardware. Below are the quickest ways to get started.
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AutoGLM Phone 9B addresses a uniquely Asian market need: smartphone-centric AI automation in markets like China, Japan, and Southeast Asia where mobile-first digital life is dominant. Its ability to operate phone UIs autonomously represents a new frontier in mobile AI agents.
AutoGLM Phone 9B by Zhipu AI has the following version history and notable updates:
For the complete changelog and latest release notes, visit the official Zhipu AI model page.