GLM-5 was totally educated utilizing Chinese language-made Huawei Ascend chips.
Buyers rallied behind Chinese language AI start-up Zhipu after its newest agentic mannequin, claiming to characterize a “generational leap in AI functionality”, launched yesterday (11 February).
GLM-5 is a fifth-generation massive language mannequin (LLM) developed by the 2019-founded Zhipu AI. It gives round 745bn complete parameters and 44bn energetic parameters per inference.
The mannequin is engineered for agentic intelligence, superior multi-step reasoning and “frontier-level” efficiency throughout coding, inventive writing and complicated problem-solving, its maker mentioned.
The open-weight mannequin is corresponding to OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.5, based on Synthetic Evaluation ranks, and has been educated totally utilizing Chinese language-made Huawei Ascend chips.
In line with Zhipu, “full independence” from US-manufactured {hardware} positions GLM-5 as a “milestone in China’s drive towards self-reliant AI infrastructure”. Zhipu shares rose by as a lot as 34pc following GLM-5’s launch.
Zhipu’s GLM-5 surpasses a brand new providing – Kimi K2.5 – from its rival, the Alibaba-backed Moonshot AI, in numerous benchmark rankings.
Capitalising on GLM-5’s launch, Zhipu raised the pricing of its GLM Coding Plan by 30pc. The coding plan is corresponding to Anthropic’s Claude Code, which is unavailable in China.
In the meantime, one other Chinese language AI competitor – MiniMax – noticed its share worth rise by 13pc following the launch of its up to date M2.5 mannequin earlier this week.
Final December, Zhipu introduced the launch of a $560m share sale. Days later, in January, MiniMax went public and raised round $619m.
In the meantime, in December, Moonshot AI reportedly raised $500m from buyers together with Alibaba and IDG, looking for a valuation of as a lot as $4.3bn.
These new launches come forward of DeepSeek’s new V4 mannequin, anticipated to return out later this month. In line with stories, the brand new DeepSeek mannequin may outperform rivals ChatGPT and Claude, significantly on duties that contain lengthy coding prompts.
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