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Wednesday 23 September 2026
Seven Chinese AI companies hit US$10.7 billion ARR, but the harder race is paying for scale

China's leading AI developers are scaling revenue rapidly, but the gap with their US rivals remains substantial — and the cost...

Monday 21 September 2026
Z.ai's ZCode crisis exposes AI coding's enterprise trust gap
Chinese AI developer Z.ai has open-sourced its ZCode coding tool and is preparing a zero-data-retention option for its Model-as-a-Service (MaaS) platform after ZCode was found packaging...
Friday 18 September 2026
Z.ai's next growth engine starts where compute scarcity ends

Chinese AI developer Z.ai has raised its 2026 year-end annual recurring revenue (ARR) target by 25% to US$3 billion after fresh financing...

Monday 14 September 2026
Z.ai reloads with US$5 billion for China's AI race

Chinese artificial intelligence developer Z.ai (formerly Zhipu AI) plans to raise about US$5 billion through a Hong Kong share placement...

Thursday 3 September 2026
MiniMax, Z.ai revenues surge on API demand but adjusted losses widen
Two of China's first listed foundation-model developers are showing that demand for their technology can translate into rapidly growing revenue. Turning that demand into profit remains...
Thursday 3 September 2026
TIME AI 100 spotlights China's new AI guard, from Moonshot, Z.ai to AgiBot, Manus
TIME recently unveiled its 2026 list of the 100 most influential people in AI. Alongside leaders of major technology companies, the list includes a new generation of Chinese...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Z.ai runs GLM inference on 100,000 Chinese AI chips, eyes overseas CSPs
Chinese large-model developer Z.ai says it can now support large-scale inference using roughly 100,000 domestically produced AI chips, while its GLM models are also moving closer to...
Friday 28 August 2026
Insight: China's next AI frontier is silicon, not smarter models
For the past two years, China's AI companies have competed on a single axis: whose model performs best. That contest is starting to give way to a harder one — whether those models...
Wednesday 19 August 2026
Z.ai says GLM-5.3 lifts coding, cyber tests, flags Cursor vulnerability

Z.ai has released GLM-5.3, a new AI model that it said delivers major gains in coding and cybersecurity through post-training alone...

Monday 3 August 2026
Beijing's AI 'golden circle' draws Moonshot, Z.ai, US$14B in funding
Beijing is emerging as one of China's most prominent artificial intelligence clusters as competition in large language models intensifies. Moonshot AI's recently released open-source...
Tuesday 21 July 2026
China's Z.ai reportedly powers up 1GW data center built entirely on domestic chips

Chinese AI developer Z.ai has completed a giant data center running exclusively on domestically made chips, a milestone in Beijing's...

Monday 13 July 2026
MiniMax bets US$2 billion on AI infrastructure as lock-up selloff deepens its split with Z.ai
Chinese artificial-intelligence developer MiniMax is raising HK$16 billion (approx. US$2.04 billion) through a share placement and convertible bonds to accelerate spending on AI infrastructure...
Friday 10 July 2026
Z.ai widens lead over MiniMax: China's AI model race shifts from scale to staying power

China's AI model race is moving beyond parameter size, benchmark rankings and user buzz. Investors are now asking which companies can turn...

Wednesday 8 July 2026
China eyes AI model curbs as tech rivalry moves beyond chips

For years, Washington and Beijing focused much of their tech rivalry on silicon. Now the front line may be moving to the AI models the...

Friday 3 July 2026
China's Z.ai ramps up AI rivalry with Anthropic, OpenAI via GLM-5.2

Chinese AI company Z.ai, also known as Zhipu AI, is escalating its challenge to US leaders Anthropic and OpenAI with the release of...