Tsinghua-born lab (Z.ai) behind the open-weight GLM family, backed by Alibaba, Tencent and state funds. One of China's 'AI tiger' labs pushing frontier-quality open models into global developer stacks.
Investment figures are declared/announced amounts. OpenAI's $122B includes conditional and vendor-linked components (~$37B immediate cash). Valuations are post-money where reported. Key claims externally validated June-July 2026 (TechCrunch, Bloomberg, CNBC, NYT, Quartz). Relationship years are first-public-announcement years; long-tail partnerships without a public record carry era estimates (flagged yearEstimated).
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