New AI model GLM-4.5 has lower usage costs than DeepSeek

A notable event was the launch of a new artificial intelligence (AI) model called GLM-4.5, which has a lower cost of use than DeepSeek - one of the AI representatives that was once considered the "first shot" for the low-cost AI race in China.

AI startup Z.ai (formerly known as Zhipu) based in Beijing (China) announced the above model on July 28.

Z.ai said that with the new language model GLM-4.5, the company applies a price of $0.11 for each million input tokens, lower than the $0.14 of the DeepSeek R1 model.

For output tokens, Z.ai's price is $0.28 per million tokens, while DeepSeek charges $2.19. Tokens are a unit of measurement for data used for processing in AI models.

In addition to the aforementioned cost issue, Z.ai said that GLM-4.5 was developed in the direction of "agentic AI, allowing the model to automatically break down a task into smaller steps for more precise processing.

“Agentic AI” is an artificial intelligence system that is capable of making decisions, planning, and taking actions to achieve goals without constant human intervention. This is a step further than traditional AI, which only responds to commands without the ability to take proactive actions.

Additionally, the GLM-4.5 model is provided as open source, allowing developers to download and use it for free.

Z.ai CEO Zhang Bang said GLM-4.5 is half the size of DeepSeek's model and requires only eight Nvidia H20 chips to operate.

The H20 is an AI chip designed by Nvidia, a US-based multinational technology corporation, specifically for the Chinese market, in order to comply with export control regulations of the US President Donald Trump's administration. Nvidia is now allowed to resume sales to China after a 3-month suspension, but it is unclear when the first shipments will be delivered.

Last January, Chinese startup DeepSeek caused a big shock in the US market after announcing its AI model with similar features to ChatGPT - a generative AI model of OpenAI.

OpenAI mentioned Z.ai in a warning about China’s rapid growth in AI in late June. The US government later added the startup to its entity list, which restricts it from doing business with US companies.

Z.ai was founded in 2019. According to market research and data provider PitchBook, Z.ai has raised more than $1.5 billion from major investors, including Chinese tech giants Alibaba and Tencent.

In recent times, many Chinese technology companies have launched new open-source AI models. In early July, Beijing-based Moonshot released its Kimi K2 model, claiming that it has some superior coding capabilities compared to ChatGPT (OpenAI) and Claude (Anthropic).

Simply put, coding is a job related to writing programs for computers, through programming languages./.

(Vietnam News Agency/Vietnam+)

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