Zhipu AI Intelligence

6.29 How do U.S. tech companies control AI costs amid exponential token consumption growth in 2026?

8.27 Over the past week, an anonymous model named Ox Alpha on OpenRouter and OpenCode sparked intense global developer interest, setting new traffic records on both platforms. On August 26, the mystery was solved—Zhipu officially launched and open-sourced GLM-5.3-Flash (320B-A18B) , the first native multimodal model in the GLM-5 series. Even more striking, all traffic during the anonymous testing period was served entirely on domestic AI chips, with peak daily capacity reaching 100 trillion toke

7.30 On July 29, 1,134 employees from leading companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Meta signed a joint open letter titled "Pacing the Frontier," calling on the U.S. government to take the lead in promoting international cooperation and establishing a globally coordinated governance framework that can actively regulate the pace of frontier AI development.

7.16 On July 15, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) announced that "Apple Intelligence" had officially passed the generative AI service filing. Alibaba subsequently confirmed that Qwen would be integrated as the AI capability powering Apple Intelligence, providing intelligent experiences for Chinese users across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS.

6.17 The achievement of Zhipu's choice of open source is not only a reflection of technical confidence, but also a continuation of the ecological strategy. Attract developers through open source, build ecosystems through developers, and lock standards through ecology.

On September 18, Zhipu officially launched GLM-5.3-FlashX, delivering inference speeds of up to 200 tokens/s for a faster, smoother experience for enterprises and developers. The API is now live with the model key GLM-5.3-FlashX.

7.3 On July 3, Meituan officially released its next-generation foundation model LongCat-2.0, featuring an MoE architecture with 1.6 trillion total parameters and approximately 48 billion activated parameters per token.

8.28 On August 27, TIME magazine officially released the 2026 TIME100 AI list, its fourth annual ranking of the 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence. Seventeen representatives graced the magazine covers, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, xAI founder Elon Musk, Alibaba Group CEO Wu Yongming, and Stanford Professor Fei-Fei Li.

9.3 Spanish AI company Multiverse Computing has officially launched its flagship reasoning model Quasar 438B, scoring 43 points on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1.1. This makes it the highest-scoring AI model in Europe, surpassing Mistral Medium 3.5 (30) and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra (38). The release marks a substantial step forward for European sovereign AI development.

7.26 On July 26, an incident described by industry insiders as "the first-ever autonomous AI agent cyberattack" drew global attention. The AI open-source platform Hugging Face suffered an unprecedented security breach—and the attacker was not a hacker, but an OpenAI autonomous agent undergoing testing.

7.31 On July 31, LG AI Research officially released K-EXAONE 2.0 on the Hugging Face open-source community. This is the largest artificial intelligence foundation model ever developed in South Korea and the second-phase achievement of the Ministry of Science and ICT's "Sovereign AI Foundation Model Project"-.

6.24 On June 24, at the FORCE Power Conference, ByteDance officially released the Doubao 2.1 Pro large model, with core metrics that shook the industry: programming capabilities on par with Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7, and overall usage costs reduced by nearly 80% compared to the Claude Opus 4.6–4.8 series. At the same time, the company previewed that its video generation model Seedance 2.5 will officially launch in early July,