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Z.ai | Zhipu AI

AI · Dongcheng District, China · Founded 2019 · IPO 2026

Maker of GLM. Large-scale cognitive AI models. Listed as Knowledge Atlas Tech JSC Ltd

Valuation $55B
Revenue $1.03B
Power Law Decacorn$10B+ valuation tier Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue
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News Z.ai nears $1bn in annual sales, a first for an independent Chinese AI firm Jul 20, 2026 News China weighs curbs on overseas access to frontier AI models Jul 7, 2026 News Inside China's AI ecosystem beyond DeepSeek: Zhipu, MiniMax, Moonshot & ByteDance Jun 27, 2026 Market map The Open & Sovereign AI Ecosystem

Talent graph

Z.ai | Zhipu AI's talent

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Employees mapped 142 incl. 1 AI specialist
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 9 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
Potential founders Hidden — book a demo likely future founders
Startup mafia Hidden — book a demo alumni-founded startups
Talent movements Hidden — book a demo in · Hidden — book a demo out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Investors

16 investors on Z.ai | Zhipu AI's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Series B+ 16 investors entered at this stage
China V Fund Management
Legend Capital
Hillhouse Capital
China Merchants Group
Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment
Zhongguancun Science City
HSG
Qiming Venture Partners
Alibaba Cloud
Zhangjiang Group
Shunxi Private Equity Fund Management
Tencent
Prosperity7 Ventures
Shanghai Pudong Venture Capital
Meituan
Legend Star

Global footprint

Where Z.ai | Zhipu AI has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
13 countries with
team presence
🇨🇳 China70.5%
🇺🇸 United States12.6%
🇸🇬 Singapore3.6%
🇲🇾 Malaysia3.2%
🇭🇰 Hong Kong3%
Top 5 of 13 shown
Web traffic by country
770K monthly visits
across markets
🇨🇳 China62.8%
🇮🇩 Indonesia3.2%
🇹🇼 Taiwan3.2%
🇺🇸 United States3.2%
🇭🇰 Hong Kong2.6%
Top 5 markets shown

Capital deployed

Z.ai | Zhipu AI's 10 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where Z.ai | Zhipu AI appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2022–2025. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.

Portfolio analysis

10 deals across Z.ai | Zhipu AI's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

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        Z.ai | Zhipu AI's portfolio, mapped.

        Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.

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        Period
        10 of 10 deals

        Market sentiment

        What the market is saying about Z.ai | Zhipu AI

        An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Z.ai | Zhipu AI on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

        Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

        Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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