Zhipu AI has launched a new tool to help developers build autonomous coding assistants, heating up its rivalry with US firm Anthropic as the latter removes a hidden code tracking Chinese users of its Claude Code platform.<\/p>\n
Beijing-based Zhipu, known as Z.ai overseas and listed in Hong Kong under the name Knowledge Atlas Technology, on Wednesday introduced ZCode, a harness for its latest artificial intelligence<\/a> model, GLM-5.2<\/a>.<\/p>\n A harness is a control system that helps large language models execute tasks autonomously, essentially allowing them to function as AI agents. Such tools have emerged as a major battleground for Chinese and US AI labs as automated coding platforms surge in popularity.<\/p>\n To draw developers, Zhipu rolled out a range of promotions on Wednesday. These include increasing data quotas for its existing subscribers by 50 per cent and offering 5 million free tokens \u2013 the basic units of data used by AI \u2013 to new ZCode users.<\/p>\n The company is gearing up to go head-to-head with leading US labs following the release of the powerful GLM-5.2 model last month. The launch was hailed by some in Silicon Valley as another \u201cDeepSeek moment\u201d<\/a> for Chinese open-source AI, in reference to the rival Chinese firm<\/a> that disrupted the global tech sector last year.<\/p>\n \u201cCompetition and collaboration are what push all of us forward,\u201d said Zixuan Li, Zhipu\u2019s head of global operations, in a post on X on Thursday, adding that the company built ZCode by \u201cstanding on the shoulders of an incredible open developer community\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zhipu AI has launched a new tool to help developers build autonomous coding assistants, heating up its rivalry…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[24,53,2699,387,935,2798,38159,926,2700,48920,33030,969,1161,156,9756],"class_list":["post-93308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anthropic","tag-ai","tag-anthropic","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-claude-code","tag-fable","tag-glm","tag-hong-kong","tag-international-cyber-digest","tag-knowledge-atlas-technology","tag-san-francisco","tag-silicon-valley","tag-us","tag-zhipu-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}