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Company Profile
Z.ai (formerly Zhipu AI) is a Beijing-based AI lab developing the GLM family of large language models and agentic developer tools like ZCode.
Founded 2019Beijing, China2513.HK
Investors
AlibabaTencentAnt GroupMeituanXiaomiHillhouseQiming Venture PartnersProsperity7 Ventures
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Z.ai FAQ
- Is Z.ai publicly traded?
- Yes. Z.ai trades under the ticker 2513.HK.
- Who are Z.ai's investors?
- Z.ai's investors include Alibaba, Tencent, Ant Group, Meituan, Xiaomi, Hillhouse, Qiming Venture Partners, Prosperity7 Ventures.
Coverage Timeline
newest first- Aug 16, 2026AIZ.ai's GLM-5.3 Takes Aim at Claude and GPT in Coding→
- Aug 14, 2026AIChina's Z.ai Holds Back Its Best Model Over Hacking Risk→
- Jul 23, 2026IPOChina's AI Labs Race Toward A Wave Of IPOs→
- Jul 2, 2026AIZ.ai Launches ZCode, a Free IDE for GLM-5.2, to Challenge Cursor, Claude Code and CopilotUp to 82% cheaper than Opus 4.8→
- Jul 2, 2026AIChinese Lab Z.ai Launches ZCode to Challenge Cursor, Claude Code and GitHub CopilotNew product launch→
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Z.ai's GLM-5.3 Takes Aim at Claude and GPT in Coding
Chinese AI lab Z.ai is upgrading its flagship GLM-5.3 model with sharper coding capabilities, the latest sign that Chinese labs are closing the gap with Anthropic and OpenAI on developer-focused benchmarks.
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China's Z.ai Holds Back Its Best Model Over Hacking Risk
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China's Z.ai Holds Back Its Best Model Over Hacking Risk
Z.ai built GLM-5.3 into the strongest open coding and vulnerability-hunting model it has released, then delayed publishing its weights because its own cyber capability tests came back higher than the company expected.
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China's AI Labs Race Toward A Wave Of IPOs
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China's AI Labs Race Toward A Wave Of IPOs
Moonshot, DeepSeek, MiniMax and Z.ai are all pursuing or completing public listings within months of each other, a compressed wave of Chinese AI IPOs that resets how investors value the entire sector.
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Z.ai Launches ZCode, a Free IDE for GLM-5.2, to Challenge Cursor, Claude Code and Copilot
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Z.ai Launches ZCode, a Free IDE for GLM-5.2, to Challenge Cursor, Claude Code and Copilot
Z.ai, the Beijing lab formerly known as Zhipu AI, officially launched ZCode on July 2 — a free, agent-first development environment purpose-built for its GLM-5.2 model, with subscription plans starting at $16.20/month, up to 82% cheaper than Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 API pricing. The launch lands three weeks after a US export-control order briefly suspended foreign access to Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, an episode Z.ai's timing has directly capitalized on, with GLM-5.2 running entirely on Huawei silicon and ranking second globally on the Code Arena leaderboard behind only Claude Fable 5.
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Chinese Lab Z.ai Launches ZCode to Challenge Cursor, Claude Code and GitHub Copilot
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Chinese Lab Z.ai Launches ZCode to Challenge Cursor, Claude Code and GitHub Copilot
Z.ai launched ZCode on July 2, an agentic development environment built around its GLM Coding Plan and long-horizon task execution — the user describes an outcome, the agent plans the work, edits files, runs checks and iterates until the goal is met. It enters a coding-agent market where, per VentureBeat, virtually every developer shipping software in 2026 is already using Claude Code, GitHub Copilot or Cursor, positioning ZCode as a lower-cost, desktop-native challenger.