(Jan 21): China’s Zhipu is limiting access to its coding assistant after strong demand for a new AI model syphoned off computing resources. Zhipu said its recent launch of its GLM-4.7 large language model triggered a surge of users, resulting in temporary computing resource constraints. US sanctions have constrained its access to top-tier Nvidia Corp AI accelerators, pushing the company to work more closely with domestic provider Huawei Technologies Co. This month Zhipu also released a new multimodal model that it says is the country’s first to be fully trained using domestic chips. The company said that its open-source image generation model, GLM-Image, is the first state-of-the-art multimodal model to complete training using Huawei’s Ascend chips.

Source: The Edge Markets January 21, 2026 10:43 UTC