Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 open-weight model outperformed DeepSeek V4 Pro and Kimi K-2.6 in enterprise agentic development trials, but its limited hosting options—only available through small US, Chinese, and…
Chinese AI company Zhipu AI raised $4.01 billion through a Hong Kong share placement to fund foundation-model research and development, compute capacity, and expansion, intensifying competition with O…
The US-China AI competition is shifting to a contest over electricity output and cost as AI models become commoditized, with service prices driven by energy expenses. China's renewable energy advantag…
Chinese technology companies have raised $17.38 billion through IPOs and secondary share sales in Hong Kong so far in 2026, driven by surging investor demand for artificial intelligence, semiconductor…
Databricks tested Zhipu AI's open-weight model GLM-5.2 in July 2026 and found it matches Claude Opus 4.8 on enterprise coding quality while costing 34% less per task. The model scored 62.1% on SWE-ben…
Chinese AI labs, including DeepSeek and Zhipu AI, are developing custom chips to reduce long-term operating costs and improve hardware-software synergy, but the strategy carries significant risk due t…
Chinese AI firm Zhipu AI and chipmaker Iluvatar CoreX Semiconductor saw their shares surge after launching secondary placements to raise HK$31.4 billion and HK$7.1 billion, respectively, for hardware …
Hong Kong stocks fell on Thursday, with the Hang Seng Index down 0.78%, as regional tech volatility offset short covering. Zhipu AI surged over 10% amid easing IPO share unlocking volatility, while Mi…
Tencent's Hunyuan-3 and Zhipu AI's GLM 5.2 are competing open-weight models for AI agents, with Hunyuan-3 offering a 256K-token context window and MoE architecture, while GLM 5.2 emphasizes tool-use a…
Zhipu AI, a Beijing-based developer of large language models, priced its share placement at HK$1,588 per share to raise approximately $4 billion, testing investor appetite for Chinese AI stocks after …
Zhipu AI quietly raised the default concurrency limit on its GLM API, allowing developers to run more parallel requests without prior approval. The move addresses developer complaints about severe rat…
Chinese AI company Zhipu AI is seeking to raise approximately $4 billion through a secondary share sale in Hong Kong, following a stock surge of nearly 1,500% since its January IPO. The Tsinghua Unive…
A CTO evaluated four Chinese LLM families—DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, and GLM—for production use at scale, finding that DeepSeek V4 Flash offers the best overall value at $0.25/M tokens, while Kimi K2.5 exc…
China is shifting from competing on frontier AI performance to releasing affordable, open-weight AI models for mass adoption, mirroring its strategy in manufacturing. This approach allows global users…
Zhipu AI, the Chinese AI lab behind the GLM series of open-source models, is exploring the development of a custom AI chip to address surging demand and US export controls. The company has initiated e…
Chinese researchers warn that as open-weight AI models like Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 approach frontier-level capabilities, China may impose stricter regulations similar to US restrictions on Anthropic's Cla…
Hong Kong stocks rebounded on Wednesday as the Hang Seng Index rose 2.4%, led by technology shares, amid easing concerns over lock-up expiries. Knowledge Atlas Technology surged 18% after cornerstone …
A developer tested four Chinese AI models—DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, and GLM—across coding, reasoning, creative writing, and Mandarin tasks. DeepSeek V4 Flash emerged as a top pick for its balance of perfo…
Chinese AI models now account for over 30% of weekly token usage among US users on OpenRouter, driven by cost advantages of 60-90% over Western rivals. The surge, led by MiniMax M2.5, Moonshot AI's Ki…
Chinese companies plan to allocate 46% of their AI chip budgets to domestic suppliers within a year, up from 30% currently, according to a Bloomberg Intelligence survey. The shift is driven by U.S. ex…