Zhipu AI (智谱AI, now also branded as Z.ai) is a Beijing-based Chinese AI company that develops and commercializes large language and multimodal AI foundation models under the GLM family, offering APIs, agentic products (such as AutoGLM), and developer tools to enterprise customers and consumers across industries. Rooted in Tsinghua University research, it is one of China's leading AGI-focused AI labs, competing with Baidu, Alibaba, and DeepSeek.
“Zhipu roughly from the first half of 2025 started making this a particularly important direction, and Kimi too. And you can see these companies have recently had relatively good success in coding.”
Source→“GLM-5.1 achieves a score gain of ~8 by Mar 2026”
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