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Z.ai

Chinese large language model and artificial intelligence company

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Headquarters: Beijing, China
Company type: Private company
Number of employees: 500–1,000
Industry: IT Services & Consulting

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Latest news about Z.ai

In short: Z.ai raised $5B, released GLM-5.3 with cyber-defense gains, and reported H1 revenue up 5x to ~$142M.

Company announcements

August 28 Z.ai

Z.ai releases open-weight GLM-5.3 model

The new version supports agentic coding and cyber defense tasks, allowing developers to download, run, and customize the weights freely.

August 26 Z.ai

Z.ai introduces GLM-5.3-Flash, a native multimodal model

The model visually inspects its own rendered outputs to self-correct errors across coding, documents, and interfaces using self-supervised training.

June 13 Z.ai

Z.ai announces GLM-5.2 model release

The new flagship model offers coding capabilities, 1M-context support, and will be open-sourced under MIT License.

March 31 Z.ai

Zhipu publishes first performance report

Exploring the upper bound of AGI intelligence, showcasing financial and R&D progress.

Media coverage

September 23 The Business Times

Chinese AI firms fall on report of DeepSeek, moonshot probe

Z.AI and MiniMax Group’s shares decline as much as 7.4% and 6.3% in Hong Kong, respectively...

September 20 South China Morning Post

Chinese AI firm Z.ai faces reputation hit after users spot unauthorised uploads | South China Morning Post

‘It’s basically like stealing something from users, and the malicious intent is what concerns me,’ Shanghai-based AI developer says.

September 18 Digitimes

Z.ai's next growth engine starts where compute scarcity ends

Chinese AI developer Z.ai has raised its 2026 year-end annual recurring revenue (ARR) target by 25% to US$3 billion after fresh financing eased the computing...

September 14 MSN

ZAI raises $5B as R&D costs exceed revenue

Chinese AI startup Z.AI (Z.ai) has announced plans to raise additional funds amounting to approximately 35 times its ...

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