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.

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.

At the Snapdragon Summit 2024 held today, Qualcomm officially unveiled the highly anticipated Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 mobile platform, a chip built on TSMC's advanced second-generation 3nm process technology, marking a new peak in performance for Android smartphone chips. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 features an entirely new core design, eliminating the small cores in favor of a full big-core layout, which includes 2 ultra-large cores with clock speeds reaching up to 4.32GHz and 6 large cores at 3.53GHz. This design sets a new historical record for smartphone processor clock speeds.

The Zhipu technology team announced an exciting piece of news today: their latest text-to-image model CogView3 and its upgraded version CogView3-Plus-3B have officially been open-sourced and successfully launched on the 'Zhipu Qingyan' App. The debut of these two models marks a new phase in AI-assisted artistic creation. CogView3 is a cascade diffusion-based text-to-image model, and its generation process is exquisite. The model first generates a low-resolution image of 512x512 pixels, and then...

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.

Zhipu AI, a unicorn in the large model field, announces the completion of financing worth several billion yuan to support technological innovation and ecosystem development. After this round of financing, Zhipu's valuation reaches 20 billion yuan, with Zhongguancun Science City Company as the lead investor, marking its third financing round in 2024. Zhipu's shareholder lineup includes well-known investment institutions such as Zhongguancun Science City, Hillhouse Capital, Qiming Venture Partners, and Junlian Capital, as well as internet giants Meituan, Alibaba, Tencent, and Xiaomi.

On September 2, 2024, Beijing Zhipu Technology Co., Ltd. signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Honor in Beijing to establish a joint laboratory for large AI model technology, marking a new stage in their collaboration in the field of artificial intelligence. Zhipu is committed to developing a new generation of cognitive intelligent large models, focusing on innovation in general-purpose AI foundation models. Honor is a leader in platform-level AI technology in the consumer electronics sector.

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.