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Zhipu AI launches AI Slides, a revolutionary PPT tool using GLM-Experimental model. It generates professional slides from text/documents with smart layouts and visual optimization. Free for business/academic use, praised for design quality and efficiency. Available on Zhipu's official site.....

Zhipu AI officially open-sources its latest general vision model, GLM-4.1V-Thinking, based on the GLM-4V architecture, which introduces a chain-of-thought reasoning mechanism, significantly enhancing its capabilities for complex cognitive tasks. The model supports multimodal inputs such as images, videos, and documents, and excels in diverse scenarios including long video understanding, image question answering, subject problem-solving, text recognition, document interpretation, grounding, GUI Agent, and code generation, covering a wide range of industry application needs. GLM-4.1V-9B-Thinking

At the recent Zhipu Open Platform Industrial Ecosystem Conference held in Shanghai, a major development emerged in the field of artificial intelligence: Pudong Venture Capital Group and Zhangjiang Group jointly announced a strategic investment of up to 1 billion yuan in Zhipu, with the first installment already completed. This significant investment will provide strong support for Zhipu in building a trusted artificial intelligence infrastructure and accelerate its layout in the field of General Artificial Intelligence (AGI). In his keynote speech at the conference, Zhipu CEO Zhang Peng elaborated on two latest achievements in the company's efforts to move toward AGI in collaboration with ecosystem partners.

Zhipu BigModel's open platform has adjusted prices for several of its model offerings. GLM-4-FlashX, for example, is now priced at just 10 RMB per 100 million tokens. Built on a powerful pre-trained base, this model boasts exceptionally fast inference speeds and functional capabilities comparable to GPT-4, excelling in data extraction, generation, and translation.

The Tsinghua University KEG Lab (THUDM) has launched its cutting-edge large language models (LLMs), GLM-4-32B and GLM-Z1-32B, on the OpenRouter platform, completely free and open to global users. This milestone event represents a significant step towards the widespread adoption of high-performance AI models, providing developers, researchers, and AI enthusiasts with powerful tools to drive further innovation in AI applications. Model launch: Powerful performance, free access.

Kingsoft Cloud announced that its StarStream training and inference platform has fully integrated with Zhipu's GLM series inference models, becoming one of the first platforms to integrate this series. This move marks Kingsoft Cloud's further expansion in the AI field, providing users with more efficient, intelligent, and cost-effective model services.

Beijing's Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund has announced an additional investment of 200 million RMB in Zhipu (Z.ai), building on its previous investment, to support the development of Zhipu's open-source models and the construction of its open-source community ecosystem. Zhipu is the first AI large language model company invested in by the fund and is currently the fastest-growing company. Zhipu has comprehensive accumulation in model capabilities including text, reasoning, speech, image, video, and code, a well-established commercial layout, and a developer community and enterprise user base exceeding one million.

The Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund recently announced an additional investment of 200 million RMB in Beijing Zhipu AI Technology Co., Ltd. (Zhipu). According to the fund, Zhipu is the first AI large language model company invested in since the fund's establishment and is one of the fastest-growing companies in the field. Zhipu has accumulated deep expertise in model development across text, reasoning, speech, image, video, and code, and boasts a robust commercialization strategy, having established a developer community and enterprise user base exceeding one million. This investment aims to further support Zhipu's growth and development.

Zhipu AI's technology team has announced the open-sourcing of its 32B and 9B GLM (General Language Model) model series, and the official launch of its new interactive platform, Z.ai. This model series includes base models, inference models, and contemplative models, all under a permissive MIT license. This grants developers extensive freedom for use and development, allowing free use for commercial purposes and free distribution.

Zhipu AI today launched its latest Agent product, AutoGLM-Thinking, at the 2025 Zhongguancun Forum. This is the industry's first Agent product to integrate deep research capabilities with operational capabilities, its key feature being the ability to think and act concurrently. AutoGLM-Thinking breaks the limitations of traditional AI models, capable of simultaneously performing complex reasoning and executing actions. It can, like a human, open and browse web pages, completing entire tasks from data retrieval and analysis to report generation, achieving a tight integration of thought and action. Zhipu AI stated...

Beijing Zhipu AI announced the release of CogView4, the first open-source text-to-image model capable of generating Chinese characters. The model achieved the highest overall score on the DPG-Bench benchmark, making it the State-of-the-Art (SOTA) in open-source text-to-image models. Furthermore, it's the first image generation model to be released under the Apache 2.0 license.

This funding will primarily be used to drive technological innovation and ecosystem development of the domestically produced GLM large model. As one of the earliest AI companies in China to open-source large models, Zhipu has been committed to promoting the widespread application of AI technology. This funding will allow Zhipu to increase investment in technological R&D and ecosystem construction to better serve the booming economy of Zhejiang Province and the Yangtze River Delta region.

On February 11, 2025, Beijing Zhipu Tech announced that its developed Agentic GLM has fully launched on Samsung's latest Galaxy S25 series smartphones. This collaboration marks the official market release of the world's first smartphone that supports multimodal AI interactions, providing users with an unprecedented intelligent experience. Zhipu Tech began research on Agentic intelligence agents in April 2023 and launched its first Agent product, AutoGLM, in October 2024, being the first to propose Phone.

On January 23, 2025, the world's first publicly accessible, ready-to-use computer intelligent agent, GLM-PC, was upgraded again, attracting widespread attention. GLM-PC is based on the multimodal large model CogAgent, capable of 'observing' and 'operating' the computer like a human, assisting users in efficiently completing various computer tasks.

Beijing Zhiyuan Huazhang Technology Co., Ltd. announced on January 16, 2025, the launch of a series of new models and their availability on bigmodel.cn. Following the release of 'Zhiyuan Qingtalk' in August, the company has delved deeper into the understanding and generation of language, speech, images, and videos, introducing multimodal models such as GLM-Voice, GLM-4V, CogView, and CogVideoX.

According to reports, the U.S. Department of Commerce has added Zhipu AI to its entity list for export controls, accusing it of promoting China's military modernization and infringing on U.S. national security and diplomatic interests. ** This decision makes Zhipu AI the first Chinese large model company to be added to the U.S. entity list, marking a new round of suppression by the U.S. on China's artificial intelligence industry. Zhipu AI subsequently issued a statement emphasizing that the company is based on technology transfer from Tsinghua University and provided a detailed review of its technological development history. Zhipu AI started developing the GLM pre-training architecture in 2020 and launched it in 2022.