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Zhipu AI Secures B Financing, Lifts Full-Year ARR Target to B with Global Cloud APIs

Leading Chinese AI foundation lab Zhipu AI closed a billion financing round, bringing its two-month fundraising total to billion. Zhipu raised its 2026 ARR forecast by 25% to .0 billion and announced fully managed GLM model APIs on overseas cloud platforms.

Key Takeaways

  • Secures B round, elevating capital reserves alongside top-tier global AI labs
  • Upgrades 2026 ARR forecast by 25% to .0B, demonstrating strong enterprise monetization
  • Launches hosted GLM APIs across international cloud marketplaces to expand global footprint
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Ox Alpha Unmasked: Z.ai Open-Sources MIT-Licensed GLM-5.3-Flash

Z.ai released GLM-5.3-Flash, a native-multimodal 320B-A18B MoE with a 1M-token context, and confirmed it was Ox Alpha—the anonymous model that went viral on OpenRouter. Weights are MIT-licensed, the model ran entirely on Chinese AI chips, API input is /bin/sh.15 per million tokens, and it matches Claude Opus 4.8 on Z.ai’s real-world coding bench.

Key Takeaways

  • 320B-A18B MoE, native multimodal, 1M context, MIT-licensed weights
  • Confirmed as the viral anonymous OpenRouter model Ox Alpha, run on Chinese chips
  • Matches Claude Opus 4.8 on coding benches at /bin/sh.15 / /bin/sh.50 per 1M tokens
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GLM-5.3-Flash Drops Open-Weight: 320B-A18B Multimodal Coder Matches Opus 4.8

Z.ai launched GLM-5.3-Flash, a natively multimodal 320B-A18B MIT-licensed model with a 1M-token context, previously previewed as the stealth Ox Alpha. On Z.ai's Code Bench it matches Claude Opus 4.8 at $0.15/$0.50 per million input/output tokens, and it runs entirely on Chinese AI chips.

Key Takeaways

  • MIT-licensed 320B-A18B sparse model with native multimodality and a 1M-token context
  • Matches Claude Opus 4.8 on Z.ai's real-world Code Bench at roughly an order-of-magnitude lower price
  • Previously the stealth Ox Alpha on OpenRouter; weights, API, ZCode, and Coding Plan are live
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