Recently, Beijing Zhipu Huazhang Technology Co., Ltd. announced the completion of the latest round of strategic financing, with a financing amount of more than 1 billion yuan. Participants in this financing include well-known investment institutions such as Hangzhou Urban Investment Industrial Fund and Shangcheng Capital, which fully reflects the market's high recognition and support for Zhipu Huazhang's technical strength and future development potential.
As one of the earliest AI companies in China to open source large-scale models, Zhipu Huazhang's technical accumulation and innovation capabilities in the field of artificial intelligence have attracted much attention. The company made it clear that 2025 will be a key year for its open source development. To this end, Zhipu Huazhang plans to launch a series of new large models within the year, including base model, inference model, multimodal model and intelligent agent (Agent) model, and open source all of these models. This strategic move will not only accelerate the popularization of artificial intelligence technology, but will also provide developers and enterprises with more powerful tools to help them achieve innovative breakthroughs in various application scenarios.
It is worth mentioning that the technical team of Zhipu Huazhang opened the base model CogAgent-9B-20241220 on December 26 last year. The model is based on GLM-4V-9B training and focuses on agent tasks. In the testing of multiple data sets, CogAgent-9B-20241220 was comprehensively compared with other leading models on the market such as GPT-4o, Claude-3.5, etc., and the results showed that it performed particularly well in the field of graphical user interface (GUI) agents, further proving Zhipu Huazhang's leading position in AI technology research and development.
This series of new measures by Zhipu Huazhang not only demonstrates its technical strength in the field of AI, but also injects new vitality into the development of the open source ecosystem. With the release and open source of new models, developers and enterprises in the industry will be able to make more convenient use of these advanced AI technologies, providing more possibilities for future innovation. It can be foreseen that Zhipu Huazhang will continue to lead the development trend of artificial intelligence technology and push the industry to a new height.