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Latest news, updates, and announcements from Z.ai.
Z.ai and Moonshot AI founders' Tsinghua ties now define a Chinese LLM rivalry
The Wall Street Journal profiled Tang Jie, founder of Z.ai, and Yang Zhilin, founder of Moonshot AI, tracing how the two were once teacher and student at Tsinghua University and now lead two of China'...
Z.ai releases GLM-5.3, a new frontier open-weights model available via API at competitive prices of...
Z.ai releases GLM-5.3, a new frontier open-weights model available via API at competitive prices of $1.4/$4.4 per million tokens. According to Artificial Analysis, it ties with Moonshot's Kimi K3 as t...
Z.ai announced that its GLM-5.3 model scored 84.5% on the CyberGym benchmark, surpassing Mythos 5's...
Z.ai announced that its GLM-5.3 model scored 84.5% on the CyberGym benchmark, surpassing Mythos 5's 83.8%. The company will limit access to its most sensitive cybersecurity functions to verified users...
Zhipu AI (智谱) released GLM-5.3, a new open-weight foundation model with advanced cybersecurity capab...
Zhipu AI (智谱) released GLM-5.3, a new open-weight foundation model with advanced cybersecurity capabilities. The model has reportedly already identified a serious vulnerability in the Cursor coding as...

DeepSeek, Zhipu AI pursue in-house chip development as Beijing weighs overseas model restrictions
DeepSeek, fresh off a $7 billion funding round, and Zhipu AI (智谱) are reportedly developing their own inference chips to reduce reliance on Nvidia, Huawei, and other external suppliers. The moves, cov...

Z.AI launches GLM-5.2 with agentic AI, 1M-token context, open-weight architecture
Chinese AI startup Z.AI (formerly Zhipu AI) has released GLM-5.2, a foundation model designed for autonomous AI agents with a one-million-token context window and open-weight access. The model targets...
Z.ai launches ZCode, a free AI-powered coding assistant built on its in-house GLM-5.2 foundation model.
ZCode enters a rapidly commoditizing AI coding-assistant segment already crowded with well-capitalized incumbents — Cursor, Claude Code (Anthropic), and GitHub Copilot. By offering the tool for free,...

Z.ai released GLM-5.1, a 754B‑parameter Mixture‑of‑Experts model under an MIT license. It tops SWE‑B...
Z.ai released GLM-5.1, a 754B‑parameter Mixture‑of‑Experts model under an MIT license. It tops SWE‑Bench Pro with a score of 58.4, surpassing GPT‑5.4, Claude Opus 4.6 and Gemini 3.1 Pro. The model sup...

Zhupai (z.ai) has released GLM-5, an open-source 744B parameter model that achieves a record-low hal...
Zhupai (z.ai) has released GLM-5, an open-source 744B parameter model that achieves a record-low hallucination score of -1 on the AA-Omniscience Index. By leveraging a novel asynchronous RL infrastruc...

Z.ai has debuted GLM-Image, the first major multimodal model trained entirely on the Huawei Ascend A...
Z.ai has debuted GLM-Image, the first major multimodal model trained entirely on the Huawei Ascend Atlas 800T A2 stack and MindSpore framework. This follows their GLM-4.7 model scoring 68 on the Artif...

Z.ai has unveiled GLM-Image, the first state-of-the-art multimodal model trained entirely on Huawei'...
Z.ai has unveiled GLM-Image, the first state-of-the-art multimodal model trained entirely on Huawei's Ascend chip platform. This milestone validates a fully domestic AI stack, utilizing Ascend Atlas 8...

Chinese AI startup Z.ai has open-sourced its AutoGLM-Phone model and Phone Agent framework, marking...
Chinese AI startup Z.ai has open-sourced its AutoGLM-Phone model and Phone Agent framework, marking a significant leap in mobile AI. This multimodal AI system autonomously controls Android devices via...