Zhipu, the Beijing-based AI company behind the GLM large language models, raised $4 billion in a Hong Kong share placement on July 8, 2026, at a 13% discount to its previous close, just six months aft…
OpenCode released data on real-world AI model usage, cache ratios, and costs, showing DeepSeek's v4-flash leading with 8.2T tokens, followed by DeepSeek v4-pro and Zhipu's glm-5.2. The data reveals sh…
Chinese AI startup MiniMax is building a 2.7-trillion-parameter large language model, which it plans to open-source, according to The Information. The model, internally called M3 Pro, would be China's…
Anthropic reported a profit of over $1 billion in the third quarter of 2026, driven by strong adoption of its Claude Code product in software development. The company confidentially filed for an IPO o…
Z.ai's open-weight GLM 5.2 completed an agentic coding task in 17 minutes at $2.76, while Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 finished in 9 minutes at over $10, with comparable output quality. The open model c…
A Chinese AI startup, Zhipu (Z.ai), has emerged as a major competitor to Silicon Valley with its open-source GLM 5.2 model, challenging the U.S. AI establishment. The release coincided with Washington…
Cursor published CursorBench 3.1, a benchmark for AI coding agents, revealing Anthropic's Fable 5 models as top performers and Cursor's Composer 2.5 achieving near-top performance at 3% of the cost. G…
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup that ignited a price war by undercutting rivals, will double API prices for its V4 models during peak hours in Beijing, marking its first time-based surcharge. The mov…
Cloudflare's Durable Objects now stay alive for the full duration of active outbound connections, eliminating the need for heartbeat code to prevent eviction during LLM token streaming. Zhipu's GLM-5.…
Chinese developers are using API relay stations on Taobao and other platforms to resell Western AI models like Claude and ChatGPT at 1/5th to 1/10th the official price, bypassing bans and sanctions. T…
A bootcamp graduate tested ten AI coding models on five tasks, scoring them on code quality, readability, and explanation clarity. The experiment found that DeepSeek V4 Flash and DeepSeek Coder offer …
OpenAI is considering drastic cuts to its token pricing ahead of its IPO, responding to competitive pressure from Anthropic and cheaper Chinese open-source models. The move aims to capture developer a…
Nvidia's global inference datacenter market share has fallen to 1%, as competitors like China's HX-9 Pro chip and open-source models from Zhipu and Sakana AI erode its dominance. A Tier-2 datacenter i…
A developer has built a free AI video generator called Agnes Video Generator that creates narrated multi-scene videos from text prompts at zero cost. The tool, which requires only a free API key from …
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 remains offline on Day 14 after a US Commerce Department export control directive banned the model globally on June 12, 2026, citing a jailbreak that allowed codebase vulner…
Retriever, a browser-agent startup, cut the cost of automated web workflows by over 100x by swapping its planning model from a frontier API to DeepSeek V4 Flash, an openly licensed Chinese model. A mu…
Anthropic restricted access to its Fable 5 model after Amazon researchers demonstrated it could be jailbroken into producing cyberattack information, barring foreign nationals including its own non-US…
Zhipu's GLM 5.2 open-weight model, available on Synthorai at roughly one-sixth of frontier per-token prices, achieves frontier-level benchmarks but its per-task cost varies by over an order of magnitu…
Chinese AI lab Zhipu is considering a multibillion-dollar share sale in Hong Kong after its stock surged roughly 2,000% since January, pushing its market value above HK$1 trillion. The rally follows t…
Chinese AI firm Zhipu (Knowledge Atlas Technology) is considering a multibillion-dollar share sale in Hong Kong after its stock surged nearly 2,000% since its January 2026 IPO. The company, which went…