The new AI model GLM-4.5 has lower usage costs than DeepSeek.

A noteworthy event occurred when a new artificial intelligence (AI) model called GLM-4.5 was launched, boasting lower usage costs than DeepSeek – one of the AI representatives once considered the "first shot" in the race for affordable AI in China.

The AI startup Z.ai (formerly known as Zhipu), based in Beijing, China, announced the aforementioned model on July 28th.

Z.ai stated that, with its new GLM-4.5 programming language, it is applying a price of $0.11 per million tokens, lower than the $0.14 of the DeepSeek R1 model.

With its token output, Z.ai's price is $0.28 per million tokens, while DeepSeek's is priced at $2.19. Tokens are a unit of data measurement used for processing in AI models.

In addition to the aforementioned cost issue, Z.ai states that GLM-4.5 is developed with an "agentic AI" approach, allowing the model to automatically break down a task into smaller steps for more accurate processing.

"Agentic AI" is an artificial intelligence system capable of making decisions, planning, and taking action to achieve goals independently, without constant human intervention. This represents a significant advancement over traditional AI, which only responds to requests and lacks the ability to act proactively on its own.

Additionally, the GLM-4.5 model is provided as open source, allowing developers to download and use it for free.

Z.ai's CEO, Zhang Peng, said that GLM-4.5 is only half the size of DeepSeek's model and requires only eight Nvidia H20 chips to operate.

The H20 is an AI chip designed by Nvidia, a multinational technology corporation headquartered in the US, specifically for the Chinese market to comply with export control regulations imposed by the Trump administration. Nvidia has now been allowed to resume sales to China after a three-month suspension, but the timing of the first shipment remains unclear.

Last January, the Chinese startup DeepSeek caused a major shock in the US market after announcing that its AI model had similar features to ChatGPT, the generative AI model of OpenAI.

In late June, OpenAI mentioned Z.ai in its warning about China's rapid development in the AI field. The US government subsequently added the startup Z.ai to its list of entities restricted from conducting commercial transactions with US companies.

Z.ai was founded in 2019. According to market research and data provider PitchBook, Z.ai has raised over $1.5 billion from major investors, including Chinese tech giants Alibaba and Tencent.

Recently, many Chinese technology companies have launched new open-source AI models. In early July, Beijing-based Moonshot launched its Kimi K2 model, claiming it possesses several coding capabilities superior to ChatGPT (OpenAI) and Claude (Anthropic).

Simply put, coding is the work involved in writing programs for computers, using programming languages.

(VNA/Vietnam+)

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