Zhipu has released CogView4, a groundbreaking open-source image generation model that excels at understanding and responding to Chinese prompts. Users can now generate images using Chinese characters and phrases, marking a significant advancement in multilingual AI image generation.

This funding will primarily be used to drive technological innovation and ecosystem development of the domestically produced GLM large model. As one of the earliest AI companies in China to open-source large models, Zhipu has been committed to promoting the widespread application of AI technology. This funding will allow Zhipu to increase investment in technological R&D and ecosystem construction to better serve the booming economy of Zhejiang Province and the Yangtze River Delta region.

On February 19, Beijing Zhipu Huazhang Technology Co., Ltd. announced that its multimodal creation platform 'Qingying' has formed a strategic partnership with the AI character creation platform 'NianTa'. Together, they will explore a complete path from AI character design to animation creation, and promote the technological realization of IP consistency. This collaboration aims to deeply explore the needs of secondary dimension users and AI application scenarios, providing users with higher quality generation effects and faster inference speeds.

On February 11, 2025, Beijing Zhipu Tech announced that its developed Agentic GLM has fully launched on Samsung's latest Galaxy S25 series smartphones. This collaboration marks the official market release of the world's first smartphone that supports multimodal AI interactions, providing users with an unprecedented intelligent experience. Zhipu Tech began research on Agentic intelligence agents in April 2023 and launched its first Agent product, AutoGLM, in October 2024, being the first to propose Phone.

According to 'Intelligent Emergence', former Midjourney Asia Vice President Wang Yueting has joined Zhipu, primarily responsible for multimodal products and marketing. Meanwhile, Zhipu's Chief Strategy Officer Zhang Kuo and Vice President Qu Teng recently left the company. As of the time of publication, Zhipu has not responded to this development. The new head of multimodal products and marketing, Wang Yueting, previously served as Vice President of Midjourney, a prominent AIGC company, overseeing operations in China. Her joining Zhipu is seen as a significant strategic adjustment for the company in terms of products and marketing.

Qingying 2.0 has undergone a comprehensive upgrade in model architecture, training methods, and data engineering, with a significant improvement of 38% in the base model's capabilities. This enhancement enables Qingying 2.0 to generate video content with more natural movements, exquisite visuals, and stable control. Users only need to input simple prompts to allow the main subject in the video to perform significant movements while maintaining stability. For instance, Qingying 2.0 can generate a coherent action of a man stepping out of a poster, adjusting his tie, and executing close-up shots, demonstrating its ability in motion continuity and visual stability.

According to reports, the U.S. Department of Commerce has added Zhipu AI to its entity list for export controls, accusing it of promoting China's military modernization and infringing on U.S. national security and diplomatic interests. ** This decision makes Zhipu AI the first Chinese large model company to be added to the U.S. entity list, marking a new round of suppression by the U.S. on China's artificial intelligence industry. Zhipu AI subsequently issued a statement emphasizing that the company is based on technology transfer from Tsinghua University and provided a detailed review of its technological development history. Zhipu AI started developing the GLM pre-training architecture in 2020 and launched it in 2022.

The GLM-PC base model CogAgent-9B under Zhipu AI has now been open-sourced to promote the development of the large model Agent ecosystem. CogAgent-9B is a specialized Agent task model trained based on GLM-4V-9B, capable of predicting the next GUI action based solely on a screenshot input, combining user-specified tasks with historical operations. This model's versatility makes it widely applicable to various GUI interaction scenarios such as personal computers, smartphones, and vehicle systems.

According to Yahoo Finance, Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup Zhipu announced on Tuesday the completion of its latest funding round, having previously received investments from internet giants such as Alibaba and Tencent last year. The statement reveals that Zhipu's commercial revenue has more than doubled this year. Zhipu is one of the few AI startups in China valued at billions of dollars, receiving substantial investment from local tech giants. In May of this year, Saudi Aramco's venture capital division participated in Zhipu's $400 million funding round, bringing its valuation to approximately $3 billion. AI development.

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.

Beijing Zhipu Huazhang Technology Co., Ltd. announced that its Zhipu Open Platform BigModel has launched the first free multimodal API—GLM-4V-Flash. This new model leverages the excellent capabilities of the 4V series, achieving improved accuracy in image processing and further lowering the barriers for developers to delve deeper into large models across various fields.

Zhipu Technology recently announced the open source of its end-side large language and multimodal model GLM-Edge series, marking an important attempt by the company in real-world use cases at the end side. The GLM-Edge series consists of four different model sizes, including GLM-Edge-1.5B-Chat, GLM-Edge-4B-Chat, GLM-Edge-V-2B, and GLM-Edge-V-5B, which are optimized for mobile platforms such as smartphones and vehicle systems, as well as desktop platforms like PCs.

At today's Zhipu Agent OpenDay event, Zhipu AI's CEO Zhang Peng announced the latest upgrade of the company's smart agent AutoGLM. This upgrade enables AutoGLM to perform complex operations exceeding 54 steps and to complete tasks across applications, marking an important advancement in agent technology for autonomous task completion.

Today, the Zhipu Technology team released its latest video generation model, CogVideoX v1.5, and made it open source. This version is another significant advancement in the CogVideoX series launched by the Zhipu Technology team since August. The update greatly enhances video generation capabilities, including support for 5-second and 10-second video lengths, 768P resolution, and the ability to generate 16 frames. Additionally, the I2V (Image-to-Video) model supports arbitrary aspect ratios, further improving the understanding of complex semantics.