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Chinese artificial intelligence company From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Beijing Zhipu Huazhang Technology Co., Ltd.,[a] branded as Z.ai, is a Chinese technology company specializing in artificial intelligence (AI). The company was formerly known as Zhipu AI until its rebranding in 2025.[1][2]
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As of 2024, it is one of China's "AI Tiger" companies by investors and considered to be the third largest LLM market player in China's AI industry according to the International Data Corporation.[3] In January 2025, the United States Commerce Department blacklisted the company in its Entity List due to national security concerns.[4]
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The startup company began from Tsinghua University and was later spun out as an independent company.[5]
In 2023, it raised 2.5 billion yuan (approx. 350 million in USD) with the help of Alibaba Group and Tencent.[6][7][8] Other investors of the company include Ant Group, Meituan, Xiaomi, and HongShan.[7]
In May 2024, Prosperity7 Ventures, LLC, a Saudi Arabian finance firm, participated in a 400 million USD financing round for Zhipu AI with a valuation of approximately 3 billion USD.[9]
In March 2024, Zhipu AI said that they were developing a Sora-like technology to achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI).[10] In July 2024, they debuted their "Ying" text-to-video model.[11]
After OpenAI announced an API block for their services in some areas beginning in July 2024, Zhipu AI have announced a "Special Migration Program" for OpenAI API users.[12]
In October 2024, Zhipu AI released GLM-4.0, an open-source end-to-end speech large language model. The model can replicate human-like interactions and has the capability to adjust its tone, emotion, or dialect based from user's preference.[13]
In July 2025, Zhipu AI released GLM-4.5 and GLM-4.5 Air, their next generation language models which topped several popular benchmarks.[14] Along with the release of their model, the company also rebranded itself as Z.ai.[1][2] In August 2025, Z.ai announced that their GLM models are compatible with Huawei’s Ascend processors.[2] On August 11, 2025, Z.ai released a new vision-language model (VLM) with a total of 106B parameters, GLM-4.5V, achieving SOTA against other open-source VLMs such as Alibaba's Qwen2.5-VL and StepFun's Step-3.[15][16]
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GLM
GLM (General Language Model, formerly known as ChatGLM) is a series of pre-trained dialogue models initially developed by Zhipu AI and Tsinghua KEG in 2023. According to NVIDIA, their open-source ChatGLM3-6B in the ChatGLM 3.0 series described it as having "smooth dialogue and easy deployment" compared to the first two generations.[17]
GLM 4.5, released in July 2025 by Z.ai, is priced at 13% of DeepSeek's cost and can run at only eight NVIDIA H20 chips.[18]
Ying
Debuted in July 2024, Ying is a text-to-video model that can generate image and text prompts into a six-second video clip for around 30 seconds. The service is available at their official website and mobile applications integrated with their ChatGLM chatbot.[11]
AutoGLM
Released in October 2024, AutoGLM is an AI agent application that uses voice commands to complete tasks within a smartphone. The app can analyze complex tasks such as ordering an item from a nearby store and repeating an order based from the user's shopping history. The app was made as a rival to Apple's on-device AI system, Apple Intelligence.[19]
The AI tool runs on a series of AI models and chatbots, such as their ChatGLM chatbot, to process the required actions.[19]
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International presence
The company has offices in the Middle East, United Kingdom, Singapore, and Malaysia. It is also engaged in joint "innovation center" projects across Southeast Asia. Due to national security concerns, in January 2025, the United States Commerce Department added the company in its Entity List.[4]
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