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Z.ai

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

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Upscale AI

Upscale AI builds full-stack AI networking infrastructure — silicon, systems, and software — to connect accelerators, memory, and storage into a high-performance fabric for large-scale AI training and inference.

2 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
$500M
Upscale AIZ.ai
Last Valuation
$2B
Upscale AIZ.ai
AI infra
Sector
AI infra
2025
Founded
2019
Santa Clara, California
HQ
Beijing, China
Private
Status
Public (2513.HK)
Upscale AI investors
Premji InvestNvidiaSalesforce VenturesTemasekSeligman VenturesMaverick SiliconMayfieldTiger Global
Z.ai investors
AlibabaTencentAnt GroupMeituanXiaomiHillhouseQiming Venture PartnersProsperity7 Ventures

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