Zhipu AI's New Model Marks a Milestone for Chinese AI, But Challenges Remain -- Market Talk

Dow Jones
Jun 18

0328 GMT - Zhipu AI's new language and multimodal AI model is a milestone for Chinese AI, although challenges remain, say Jefferies analysts in a research note. Data from Artificial Analysis on the intelligence of large language models places Zhipu AI in the top three globally, a first for a Chinese company, according to Jefferies. That said, leadership in the large language model field also tends to change quickly, Jefferies says. "Zhipu still faces shortage of high-end inference compute that could hamper its ability to meet enterprise demand, especially for long-context agentic workloads that consume much more compute," the analysts say. Investors are also closely watching price competition in China's model market. Zhipu keeps the same API prices for the latest model despite a performance upgrade, Jefferies notes. (tracy.qu@wsj.com)

 

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