Zhipu AI
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Zhipu AI (also referenced as Z.AI) is a China-based AI company that has been releasing and upgrading large language models in the GLM series. Recent coverage highlights announcements including GLM-5.3 as a post-training upgrade to GLM-5.2, and an open-weight GLM-series iteration (“Ox Alpha”), with weights distributed shortly after announcements. The company’s models have also been discussed in benchmark and comparison coverage, including evaluations of GLM-5.2 on coding and cybersecurity-oriented tasks and in broader comparisons of open-weight Mixture-of-Experts offerings.
Updated 11 September 2026
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Kimi K3 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro vs GLM-5.2: Open Trillion-Scale MoE Models Compared on Benchmarks, License, and Serving Cost
MarkTechPost · 1 month ago ·
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We have Mythos at Home: GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our Cyber Benchmarks
Semgrep · 2 months ago ·
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Chinese AI Models Close the Gap With Anthropic and OpenAI
The New York Times · 2 months ago ·
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LWiAI Podcast #232 - ChatGPT Ads, Thinking Machines Drama, STEM
Last Week in AI · 7 months ago ·
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Last Week in AI #333 - ChatGPT Ads, Zhipu+Huawei, Drama at Thinking Machines
Last Week in AI · 7 months ago ·
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August 2026
Z.ai confirms it developed the “Ox Alpha” stealth AI model and plans to release the model weights as an open-weight release Open source release
Zhipu AI announced and released the GLM-5.3 open-source large language model Open source release
- Z.AI From China Confirms It Built Ox Alpha, and the Model Is Going Open Weight
- GLM-5.3: How Chinese labs keep stride with the frontier
July 2026
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight model with API pricing and delayed weights availability Model release
June 2026
Multiple AI companies release open-source models as pricing competition intensifies Open source release
- We have Mythos at Home: GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our Cyber Benchmarks
- Chinese AI Models Close the Gap With Anthropic and OpenAI
January 2026
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- Z.ai owns this company · 1 source