Just got back from Beijing with some wild insider stories about how Zhipu AI, MiniMax, and Kimi secured their funding rounds back in the day.

Spent two days stress-testing GLM Flash 5.3 and the results are honestly shocking. The price-to-performance ratio might have just dethroned $DEEPSEEK. We're talking competitive inference speeds with significantly lower token costs.

Zhipu AI might be massively undervalued right now. While everyone's been obsessing over DeepSeek's open-source plays, Zhipu quietly shipped a model that delivers comparable quality at a fraction of the operational cost. The Chinese LLM race just got way more interesting.