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China's AI startup Zhipu releases open-source model GLM-4.5
BEIJING, July 28 (Reuters) - Chinese AI startup Zhipu on Monday released open-source model GLM-4.5 designed for intelligent agent applications, a statement said, as it joins a wave of similar releases from local rivals in an increasingly competitive sector. Zhipu, one of China's "AI tigers" backed
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China's latest AI model claims to be even cheaper to use than DeepSeek
BEIJING -- Chinese companies are making smarter artificial intelligence models that are increasingly cheaper to use, echoing key aspects of DeepSeek's market-shaking breakthrough. Startup Z.ai, formerly known as Zhipu, announced Monday that its new GLM-4.5 AI model would cost less than DeepSeek to
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Chinese startup Z.ai launches powerful open source GLM-4.5 model family with PowerPoint creation
Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Another week in the summer of 2025 has begun, and in a continuation of the trend from last week, with it arrives more powerful Chinese open
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China's Z.ai Scoffs at US Sanctions, Launches Supercharged AI With $1.5B War Chest - Decrypt
New models are open-source, super-efficient, and cost a fifth of Western rivals to use. Beijing-based Z.ai, recently added to the U.S. Entity List and backed by $1.5 billion in fresh funding, has released two open-source AI models that outperformed most Western counterparts in global benchmarks,
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Chinese startup Z.ai releases cost-efficient GLM-4.5 reasoning model - SiliconANGLE
Chinese startup Z.ai releases cost-efficient GLM-4.5 reasoning model Chinese startup Z.ai today open-sourced GLM-4.5, a reasoning model that it claims is more cost-efficient than DeepSeek's R1. CNBC reported that the algorithm can run on eight H20 graphics cards. The H20 is a scaled-down version
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A New Open Source Model From China is Crushing the Benchmarks | AIM
Ziphu AI -- also known as Z.ai -- has unveiled the new GLM 4.5 family of AI models, which the company claims outperform Anthropic's highly regarded Opus 4.0 on several benchmarks. The release follows Moonshot AI's Kimi K2, which exhibited benchmark performance. Z.ai, based out of Beijing and
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Cheaper than DeepSeek? Z.ai releases a new open-source model
Chinese startup Z.ai, formerly known as Zhipu, released a new open-source AI model, which the company asserts operates at a lower cost than DeepSeek. Z.ai introduced three distinct models as part of this release. The flagship offering is designated as GLM-4.5. Alongside this, a more lightweight
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This Chinese AI Lab Just Released Two Open-Source Agentic AI Models
GLM-4.5 AI models offer reasoning, coding, and agentic capabilities Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) lab Z.ai announced the release of two new open-source general language models (GLM) on Monday. Dubbed GLM-4.5 and GLM-4.5-Air, the AI firm calls them its latest flagship models. Both of them
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Z.ai Says New AI Model Costs Less to Use Than DeepSeek | PYMNTS.com
By completing this form, you agree to receive marketing communications from PYMNTS and to the sharing of your information with our sponsor, if applicable, in accordance with our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions. Z.ai's new GLM-4.5 AI model costs 11 cents per million input tokens and 28
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Meet GLM-4.5: The most capable open-source AI model yet
Zhipu AI's GLM-4.5 rivals commercial giants with 128K context, dual-mode thinking, and MIT licensing While the West buzzes with the rise of OpenAI's GPT-4.5 and xAI's Grok-4, a powerful open-source challenger has emerged in the East. Developed by Zhipu AI (also known as Z.ai), GLM-4.5 is the
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Z.ai, a Chinese AI startup, releases its open-source GLM-4.5 model, claiming superior performance and cost-efficiency compared to Western counterparts, despite facing U.S. sanctions.
Chinese AI startup Z.ai, formerly known as Zhipu, has released its latest open-source AI model, GLM-4.5, positioning itself as a formidable competitor in the global AI landscape. This release comes amid increasing tensions between China and the United States, with Z.ai recently added to the U.S. Entity List
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GLM-4.5 is designed for intelligent agent applications, featuring dual operation modes: a thinking mode for complex reasoning and tool use, and a non-thinking mode for instant responses
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. The model boasts impressive capabilities, including:3
In terms of performance, Z.ai claims that GLM-4.5 ranks third globally across 12 industry benchmarks, trailing only OpenAI's GPT-4 and xAI's Grok 4
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GLM-4.5 employs a Mixture of Experts architecture with a total of 355 billion parameters, but only 32 billion are active at any given time, making it more efficient than traditional approaches
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. This efficiency allows the model to run on just eight Nvidia H20 chips, a scaled-down version of the H100 chip customized for the Chinese market2
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.Z.ai has released GLM-4.5 under the Apache 2.0 license, allowing for free use, modification, and redistribution for both research and commercial purposes
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. The company offers cloud-based API access with competitive pricing:4
This pricing structure is reportedly about one-fifth the cost of comparable Western models
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.Despite facing U.S. sanctions, Z.ai has secured significant funding and support:
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The company's valuation has doubled to 40 billion yuan ($5.6 billion) between September 2024 and July 2025
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Z.ai's release of GLM-4.5 is part of a broader trend of Chinese companies accelerating their investment in AI. As of July 2025, China has released 1,509 large language models, representing 40% of the 3,755 models released globally
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.The release of GLM-4.5 and similar models from Chinese companies challenges the dominance of Western AI firms and raises questions about the effectiveness of U.S. sanctions in slowing China's AI progress. As the global AI race intensifies, the open-source nature of these models may accelerate innovation and potentially reshape the competitive landscape in the AI industry.
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