Zhipu AI / Z.ai (智谱AI)
Known for: Tsinghua-origin GLM stack for enterprise, agents, video, and state-linked deployments.
Spun out of Tsinghua's Knowledge Engineering Group (KEG); founded by professors Tang Jie (唐杰) and Li Juanzi (李娟子); CEO Zhang Peng (张鹏).
Models & API pricing
Rates are OpenRouter's listed prices (USD per 1M tokens), a convenient cross-provider benchmark. First-party / native API pricing in China can differ, sometimes materially. Source: OpenRouter, as of Jul 13, 2026. Compare them on the models page.
News & coverage
Notable recent updates, newest first.
Zhipu AI (Chinese: Zhipu; also known as Zhipu) rebranded to Zhipu Co., Ltd and filed for a 15B RMB A-share IPO on Shanghai STAR Market.
Zhipu AI (Chinese: 智谱AI; also known as Z.ai)'s open-source Zhipu.2 ranks second globally on Code Arena, pushing market cap past 1 trillion HKD.
Zhipu AI (Chinese: 智谱AI; also known as Z.ai) opens Zhipu.2 to all Zhipu Coding Plan users.
Zhipu AI (Chinese: 智谱AI; also known as Z.ai) and MiniMax (Chinese: 稀宇科技) plan to issue A-shares on Shanghai's STAR Market, shifting capital raising back to mainland China.