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898 China’s AI Lab Zhipu Weighs Custom Chip As Demand for its GLM Model Soars

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Qianer Liu @ The Information · 07/07/2026 09:00 EDT

China’s AI Lab Zhipu Weighs Custom Chip As Demand for its GLM Model Soars

Zhipu AI, the Chinese AI lab behind the highly regarded GLM series of open-source AI models, is weighing designing its own AI chip as surging demand and U.S. export controls make computing resources a growing constraint, according to three people with direct knowledge of the plan.

The Beijing-based company, one of China’s leading AI labs, recently made preliminary inquiries with some Chinese chip design houses about the possibility of working on a bespoke AI processor optimized for running its models, acco

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