Recently, Zhipu Company successfully completed a new round of financing, raising 3 billion RMB, attracting participation from multiple strategic investors and state-owned institutions, with existing shareholders such as Guanjun Capital also increasing their investment. The funds will primarily be used for the research and development upgrades of Zhipu's base large model, further enhancing its capabilities in complex reasoning, multimodal task solving, and promoting innovation and development in the industry ecosystem. This marks Zhipu's second round of financing this year. Previously, in September, Zhipu received funding support led by Zhongguancun Science City, becoming the first large model startup to achieve a valuation exceeding 20 billion RMB.

Recently, Zhipu AI announced that the video call API: GLM-4-Plus-VideoCall is now open for applications on the platform. This API is based on the model behind Qingyan video calls, capable of enabling video calls and multi-turn voice interaction across modalities, and is expected to become a new paradigm pushing the innovation of human-computer interaction.

Zhipu AI announced today that since being showcased at KDD 2024, its flagship language model GLM-4-Plus and the first dynamic video understanding model GLM-4V-Plus have received widespread recognition, achieving outstanding results on authoritative evaluation lists, breaking the monopoly of foreign models in the top three and positioning themselves at the international elite level.

Recently, Zhipu AI launched its foundational large model GLM-4-Plus, showcasing visual capabilities that rival OpenAI's GPT-4, and announced that it would be available for use starting August 30. This model has made significant advancements in language foundation, text-to-image, image/video understanding, and video generation, becoming the first general video understanding model API in the country, contributing over 20 million downloads to the open-source community. GLM-4-Plus excels in language parsing, instruction execution, and long text processing.

Beijing Zhipu Huazhang Technology Co., Ltd. announced a series of significant technological updates on August 29, 2024, including the release of a new generation foundation model and new application services. At the KDD2024 conference, Zhipu introduced new foundation models including the language model GLM-4-Plus, the text-to-image model CogView-3-Plus, the image/video understanding model GLM-4V-Plus, and the video generation model CogVideoX. These models have achieved international leading standards in their respective fields.