Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open MoE model, leads the open-weight leaderboard with an Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index score of 57, surpassing DeepSeek V4 Pro (44) and Zhipu …
Moonshot AI's new Kimi K3 model costs $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens, three to four times the price of its predecessor Kimi K2.6, signaling an end to the era of cheap Ch…
Zhipu AI's open-weight GLM-5.2 model matches Anthropic's Mythos in cybersecurity benchmarks at one quarter the cost per token, narrowing the AI capability gap between China and the US. The model excel…
A March 2026 study from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory analyzing 809 large language models released between 2022 and 2025 found that 80 to 90% of frontier AI model perfo…
Zhipu AI's GLM model family spans a 6,000x range in hardware requirements, with the flagship model needing more memory than a typical home has RAM, according to a user who tested GLM-4.7-Flash on a 16…
Two open-weight coding models, Kimi K2.7 Code from Moonshot AI and GLM-5.2 from Z.ai (Zhipu AI), launched days apart in June 2026, both designed for agentic coding workflows and supporting vLLM and SG…
Chinese AI firms DeepSeek, Alibaba's Qwen, Moonshot AI's Kimi, and Zhipu AI's GLM have released open-weight models under permissive licenses, challenging Anthropic's market dominance after U.S. restri…
A freelance developer tested four Chinese AI models—DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, and GLM—for a client dashboard requiring text summarization, aiming to reduce API costs. DeepSeek V4 Flash emerged as the top …
DeepSeek, the Hangzhou-based AI model developer, has started groundwork for an initial public offering on a mainland Chinese exchange and could submit its listing application as soon as this year, tar…
DeepSeek is planning a new funding round at a $71 billion valuation just weeks after closing its first $7 billion round at a $52 billion valuation, according to the Financial Times. The Chinese AI lab…
An indie hacker spent a month testing Chinese AI APIs from DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, and GLM, finding that DeepSeek V4 Flash offers 95% of GPT-4o quality at 2.5% of the price. The developer recommends Dee…
Two Chinese AI labs, Yoolee and InfiX.ai, said they aim to challenge US start-up Thinking Machines Lab by focusing on industry-specific AI solutions, reduced costs and enhanced privacy. Yoolee AI, fou…
Zhipu AI's open-weight GLM 5.2 model matches or outperforms closed models 10 to 20 times larger on function calling and structured design benchmarks, signaling a shift in the viability of smaller open…
Chinese AI firm Zhipu AI (Knowledge Atlas Technology) closed nearly flat at HK$1,645 on Monday, defying a broad market rout that saw rival MiniMax tumble nearly 20%, after co-founder Tang Jie pledged …
Zhipu AI founder Tang Jie announced a 'Touch High' plan in an internal letter, prioritizing AGI research over short-term commercialization, with four technical focuses: long-horizon tasks, autonomous …
Chinese AI company Zhipu AI, developer of the GLM-5.2 model, closed nearly flat on Monday at HK$1,645, defying a broad slump that saw rival MiniMax fall almost 20%, after pledging to prioritize advanc…
Z.ai released GLM-5.2, a 753B-parameter open-weight model under MIT license, which beats GPT-5.5 on SWE-bench Pro (62.1% vs. 58.6%) and costs roughly one-sixth the output token price. The model uses a…
Chinese users praise OpenAI's GPT-5.6 for its efficiency despite higher costs than local rivals, accessing the blocked service via VPNs. The launch introduces three models—Sol, Terra, and Luna—with Te…
Chinese AI models from Zhipu AI and DeepSeek are gaining developer share in the United States due to lower costs, with OpenRouter data showing Chinese model token consumption above 20% weekly share si…
Zhipu AI raised $4 billion in a Hong Kong placement, but the new shares represent only a 4.2% increase in total capital and most remain locked up, limiting the impact on free float. The Beijing-based …