AutoGLM

Canonical page on the main site: chinaaihub.com/agents/autoglm

Company

zhipu-ai

Description

Zhipu AI's open-source phone-use autonomous agent (repo Open-AutoGLM). The VLM sees the phone screen, plans a chain-of-thought action sequence, and executes it via ADB (Android), HDC (HarmonyOS NEXT) or WebDriverAgent (iOS). First phone agent with true Phone Use capabilities (2024-10-25); AutoGLM 2.0 commercial product runs agents in cloud virtual phones. Research/learning use.

Agent Type

autonomous

Framework

Python framework (PhoneAgent API + CLI); model AutoGLM-Phone-9B built on the GLM-4.1V-9B family

Tool Calling

Yes

Computer Use

Yes

Memory

No

Planning

Yes

Api

Yes

Pricing

Open-source framework free. AutoGLM-Phone API (BigModel model id autoglm-phone) limited-time free as of 2026-09-20; paid price after promotion not publicly disclosed.

Deployment

both

Open Source

Yes

License

Apache-2.0 (code); MIT (models)

Github

https://github.com/zai-org/Open-AutoGLM

Documentation

https://docs.bigmodel.cn/cn/guide/models/vlm/autoglm-phone.md

Use Cases

• Food delivery ordering and reordering
• Product purchase and cross-platform price comparison
• Travel planning (routes, flights/trains, hotels)
• News, music, video playback and social interactions
• Cloud-phone batch operations - notifications, likes, customer-service and attendance workflows
• AI-native phone research and GUI agent development

Limitations

• Research/learning use only; prohibited for illegal information gathering
• Sensitive pages (payment, password, banking) cannot be screenshotted - agent auto-detects and requests human takeover
• Android 7.0+ with developer mode + USB debugging required; ADB Keyboard needed for Android text input
• iOS support requires separate WebDriverAgent setup
• Local deployment needs ~24GB+ VRAM GPU
• No persistent-memory feature documented in the README

Last Verified

2026-09-20

Sources

source_name	source_url	source_type	last_verified	confidence
Open-AutoGLM GitHub repository	https://github.com/zai-org/Open-AutoGLM	official	2026-09-20	high
AutoGLM Goes Open Source blog	https://autoglm.z.ai/blog	official	2026-09-20	high
AutoGLM-Phone model card (Hugging Face)	https://huggingface.co/zai-org/AutoGLM-Phone-9B	official	2026-09-20	high
BigModel AutoGLM-Phone API docs	https://docs.bigmodel.cn/cn/guide/models/vlm/autoglm-phone.md	official	2026-09-20	high