Zhipu AI Becomes Domestic Large Model Unicorn with 20 Billion Valuation Seeking Financing


Meituan released and open-sourced its trillion-parameter model LongCat-2.0, trained and inferred on a 50,000-card domestic computing cluster. This verified domestic hardware/software reliability, showcased domestic computing potential, promoted tech exchange and application, and explored new paradigms for ultralarge model construction.....
On June 29, "Moonshot AI" issued a statement clarifying false financing and share transfer rumors, alleging fraud by some parties. The company handles all financing directly, has never authorized any third-party financial advisor, nor entrusted share transactions. It urges public caution.....
DeepSeek completed an A-round financing of approximately 51 billion yuan, with its valuation surging to 400 billion yuan. Due to the highly promising market prospects, the financing competition was intense, and it has shifted from seeking investors to companies screening participation qualifications, with a top-tier investment team ultimately investing.
On June 17, Zhipu AI open-sourced GLM-5.2, a large model focused on code generation and long-horizon tasks. It ranked 2nd globally and 1st among open-source models in Code Arena's front-end evaluation. Since early 2025, Zhipu has advanced its code foundation with GLM-4.5/4.7, and GLM-5.2 extends to complex engineering tasks over days to months.....
ByteDance's AI assistant, Doubao, has officially launched the Task Mode, upgrading from single-text interaction to an AI agent capable of handling complex workflows. This mode supports multi-turn search, deep reasoning, automatic browser operations, and multimodal content generation. It can proactively break down users' macro goals into sub-tasks and execute them through methods such as online searching, significantly improving automation and task processing efficiency.