China’s Zhipu AI sparks new ‘DeepSeek moment’ in Silicon Valley

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Zhipu AI has released GLM-5.2, a new open model that is drawing attention in Silicon Valley for its cost-effective coding performance. The model reached the top three globally on a major benchmark, which boosts its credibility against leading US and Chinese rivals. The launch landed at a sensitive moment as Anthropic paused a public-facing model to comply with a US directive. The article frames GLM-5.2 as a sign that Chinese AI vendors are becoming more competitive in frontier model development.

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$25M to $50M
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$50M to $100M
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$10M to $25M
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