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Zhipu AI today launched its latest Agent product, AutoGLM-Thinking, at the 2025 Zhongguancun Forum. This is the industry's first Agent product to integrate deep research capabilities with operational capabilities, its key feature being the ability to think and act concurrently. AutoGLM-Thinking breaks the limitations of traditional AI models, capable of simultaneously performing complex reasoning and executing actions. It can, like a human, open and browse web pages, completing entire tasks from data retrieval and analysis to report generation, achieving a tight integration of thought and action. Zhipu AI stated...

Against the backdrop of the continuously expanding artificial intelligence field, Beijing Zhipu AI Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Zhipu") recently received a 500 million RMB strategic investment from Zhuhai Huafa Group. This financing marks Zhipu's second funding round within a month. Notably, Zhipu secured 1 billion RMB in investment from Hangzhou state-owned assets and other institutions in early March. This series of capital injections will empower Zhipu to drive innovation and ecological development of its core technology – the GLM foundational large model. On March 13th, Zhuhai Huafa Group and Zhipu signed a cooperation agreement, and both parties...

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 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 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.

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.

The Zhipu technology team has recently launched a new product based on the research achievements of the GLM technology team—AutoGLM. This agent can simulate human operation of a mobile phone and perform various tasks. The launch of AutoGLM marks a significant advancement in artificial intelligence within the 'Phone Use' domain, making AI applications more relevant to people's daily lives.

Zhipu AI announces that its end-to-end emotional voice technology has officially launched on the Zhipu Qinyan platform and is now available to all users. This technology overcomes the limitations of traditional text-to-speech (TTS) technology, capable of deeply understanding contextual nuances and generating emotionally rich natural dialogues. This marks the evolution of Zhipu AI's speech synthesis technology from simple text reading to an AI that can express genuine emotions.

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.