IPO considered as early as late 2026

Considering an initial public offering (IPO) as soon as October 2026

Reportedly considering an initial public offering as early as October 2026 and has held early discussions with banks.

Projected to surpass OpenAI in annual recurring revenue by mid-2026

Projected to surpass OpenAI in annual recurring revenue by mid-2026

Scheduled retirement of Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 models.

Announced the release of the GLM-5.1 large language model, claiming significant performance gains over GLM-5.0.

Zhipu AI's GLM-5.1 model is reported to achieve autonomous self-improvement capability, evaluating and refining its own outputs without human metrics.

Released GLM-5.1 series of large language models, including flagship GLM-5.1-9B/1M with 1M token context.

Announced GLM-5.1 model series with 1M token context window and 128K output tokens