Chinese AI models now power 60% of US corporate AI use on the OpenRouter platform, with DeepSeek as the most popular model, according to data from the platform. The shift has geopolitical implications…
Z.ai, the Chinese AI startup formerly known as Zhipu, is on track to become the first independent Chinese AI firm with about $1bn in annual sales, according to Bloomberg. The company is monetizing at …
Zhipu, now trading as Knowledge Atlas Technology, has seen its shares surge nearly 1,500 percent since its Hong Kong debut in January, briefly pushing its market capitalization above $100 billion, des…
Global businesses are shifting from costly US AI models like OpenAI's GPT and Anthropic's Claude to cheaper Chinese open-weight models such as Zhipu's GLM-5.2 and DeepSeek's V4 Flash, driven by a narr…
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek is preparing an initial public offering and chasing a $71bn valuation, weeks after closing its first-ever outside round at roughly $50bn, Bloomberg reported. The Hangzhou-based…
China's state newspaper People's Daily warned against an 'AI Iron Curtain' emerging from efforts to monopolize artificial intelligence, opposing the use of AI for hegemony or tech barriers as Washingt…
A data scientist evaluated 10 AI coding models across 5 tasks, finding that DeepSeek-R1 scored highest at 9.4 but cost $2.50/M tokens, while Qwen3-Coder-30B offered the best balance at 8.8 and $0.35/M…
A developer benchmarked 15 AI models on speed and cost through Global API's infrastructure, finding that Qwen3-8B delivers 70 tokens per second at $0.01 per million output tokens—99% cheaper than prem…
Two Chinese AI startups, Yoolee AI and InfiX.ai, are pivoting away from the costly frontier model race to directly challenge Thinking Machines Lab, the US firm founded by former OpenAI executive Mira …
Cheaper AI model pricing does not automatically reduce agent execution costs because tool schemas and repeated tool calls can consume up to 32 times more tokens than the task itself, making tool desig…
Beijing-based Zhipu released GLM-5.2, an open-source AI model with a 1 million-token context window that competes with premium models like OpenAI's GPT-5.5 at no cost, though it suffers from speed iss…
Chinese President Xi Jinping will deliver a keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the World AI Conference in Shanghai starting Friday, marking his first appearance at the country's flagship AI eve…
An engineer at a company built an internal benchmark to evaluate coding LLMs for production use, testing ten models on real-world tasks like Python services and JavaScript debugging. The results showe…
Zhipu founder Tang Jie argued in an internal memo that frontier AI should remain open and broadly accessible, citing safety through broad participation. His stance conflicts with Beijing's reported co…
Chinese developers are paying premium prices for OpenAI's GPT-5.6 via VPNs, despite it being blocked in mainland China, because the model's efficiency reduces total token usage and cost for complex ta…
Goldman Sachs initiated coverage on Chinese AI companies, naming Zhipu and DeepSeek among top picks, and projecting Chinese AI model revenue will grow 25x to $121 billion by 2030. Zhipu's founder defe…
Goldman Sachs released a report on Friday analyzing China's AI large language model industry, finding that Chinese models achieve near parity with US rivals at 10-25% of the cost. The bank projects Ch…
Zhipu co-founder Tang Jie argued that open AI is safer than closed models, as U.S. government restrictions on Anthropic's Claude models highlighted sovereignty risks. Zhipu released the open-weight GL…
MiniMax CEO Yan Junjie pledged to forgo his salary until the company achieves artificial general intelligence, while the Chinese AI firm seeks up to $2 billion in a discounted share sale after its sto…
China is considering restricting exports of its most advanced AI models, a move that reflects a historical pattern where challengers use openness to gain market share and then shift to protectionism o…