SMRTR AIJul 28, 2025PYMNTS

Z.ai Says New AI Model Costs Less to Use Than DeepSeek

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Z.ai's new GLM-4.5 AI model undercuts DeepSeek on pricing, costing 11 cents per million input tokens and 28 cents per million output tokens. The open-source model, which can run on eight Nvidia H20 chips, unifies reasoning, coding, and agentic capabilities, aiming to achieve top performance across various tasks. Despite being on the U.S. entity list, Z.ai has raised $1.5 billion and plans an IPO in China.

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