This Chinese company included in US restricted entity list announces ChatGPT’s newest rival that claims to be cheaper than DeepSeek

Chinese startup Z.ai has launched GLM-4.5, an open-source AI model cheaper than DeepSeek. Built on “agentic” AI principles, it decomposes tasks for greater accuracy. Despite US restrictions and warnings, Z.ai claims adequate computing resources, pricing GLM-4.5 competitively against DeepSeek and other models like Kimi K2.