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Z.ai

AI infra comparison — funding, valuation, and investors, sourced from Value Add Pulse coverage.

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Hugging Face

Open-source AI platform and hosting hub where developers build, share, and deploy machine learning models and datasets.

9 Pulse stories
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Z.ai

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.

3 Pulse stories
Total Raised
$3.2B
Hugging FaceZ.ai
Last Valuation
$13.5B
Hugging FaceZ.ai
AI infra
Sector
AI infra
2016
Founded
2019
New York, NY / Paris, France
HQ
Beijing, China
Private
Status
Public (2513.HK)
Hugging Face investors
Salesforce VenturesGoogleAmazonNvidiaAMDIntelSequoiaLux Capital
Z.ai investors
AlibabaTencentAnt GroupMeituanXiaomiHillhouseQiming Venture PartnersProsperity7 Ventures

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