{"id":2068,"date":"2026-02-12T05:59:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T05:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=2068"},"modified":"2026-02-12T05:59:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T05:59:34","slug":"zhipu-leads-rally-in-chinese-ai-stocks-surging-30-as-a-wave-of-new-releases-hits-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=2068","title":{"rendered":"Zhipu leads rally in Chinese AI stocks, surging 30%, as a wave of new releases hits market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"RegularArticle-ArticleBody-5\" data-module=\"ArticleBody\" data-test=\"articleBody-2\" data-analytics=\"RegularArticle-articleBody-5-2\"><span class=\"HighlightShare-hidden\" style=\"top:0;left:0\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"InlineImage-imageEmbed\" id=\"ArticleBody-InlineImage-108257110\" data-test=\"InlineImage\">\n<div class=\"InlineImage-wrapper\">\n<div>\n<p>Information on Zhipu&#8217;s AI service on the web, dubbed Z.ai, arranged on a computer in Shanghai, Jan. 7, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Raul Ariano | Bloomberg | Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p>Chinese artificial intelligence stocks rallied Thursday as several companies unveiled upgraded models and top policymakers renewed calls for a broader adoption of the technology. <\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong-listed Zhipu AI \u2014 that trades as <span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/undefined\/\">Knowledge Atlas Technology<\/a><span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\" aria-label=\"Add To Watchlist\" data-testid=\"dropdown-btn\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"\/><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span> \u2014 surged 30% after releasing its GLM-5, an open-source large-language model with enhanced coding capabilities and long-running agent tasks. <\/p>\n<p>The company said the model <a href=\"https:\/\/mp.weixin.qq.com\/s\/MVo6DIcGNje_YtLgVa4PaQ\" target=\"_blank\">approaches Anthropic&#8217;s Claude Opus 4.5<\/a> in coding benchmarks while surpassing Google&#8217;s Gemini 3 Pro on some tests. CNBC could not verify those claims. <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/undefined\/\">MiniMax<\/a><span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\" aria-label=\"Add To Watchlist\" data-testid=\"dropdown-btn\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"\/><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span> saw shares in Hong Kong jump 11% following Wednesday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MiniMaxAgent\/status\/2021595954143515106?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">launch of its updated M2.5<\/a> open-source model with enhanced AI agent tools, on its overseas website. <\/p>\n<p>The company describes M2 as &#8220;a model built for Max coding &amp; agentic workflows.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The rally comes amid intensifying competition in AI as Chinese developers race to match U.S. rivals with a flurry of new model and agent releases. <\/p>\n<p>The new releases have boosted investor sentiment on AI-related companies. Shanghai-listed shares of UCloud Tech that provides computing support for Zhipu, surged by 20% on Thursday to hit the daily limit.  <\/p>\n<p>SenseTime, which has shifted its focus from developing facial recognition surveillance technology to providing AI software platforms, saw its shares in Hong Kong jump 5%.    <\/p>\n<p>The Shanghai STAR AI Industry Index climbed 1.7% before paring gains. <\/p>\n<p>DeepSeek, which took the world by storm last year, upgraded its flagship AI model on Wednesday, adding support for a larger context window and more up-to-date knowledge, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-trends\/article\/3343225\/deepseek-boosts-ai-model-10-fold-token-addition-zhipu-ai-gears-glm-5-launch\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> from the South China Morning Post. <\/p>\n<p>Ant Group also released its open-source AI model, Ming-Flash-Omni 2.0, on Wednesday. The &#8220;unified multimodal model&#8221; is capable of generating speech, music, sound effects and visuals.<\/p>\n<p>ByteDance on Monday launched its newest iteration of its AI video generation app, Seedance 2.0, that set off a rally in Chinese AI app stocks. 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Shares of <span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-8\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/700-HK\/\">Tencent<\/a><span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\" aria-label=\"Add To Watchlist\" data-testid=\"dropdown-btn\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"\/><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span> and <span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-9\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/9988-HK\/\">Alibaba<\/a><span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\" aria-label=\"Add To Watchlist\" data-testid=\"dropdown-btn\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"\/><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span> fell 2.6% and 2.1%, respectively. The Hong Kong Hang Seng Tech index dropped 1.7%.  <\/p>\n<p>On Wall Street, the AI trade has experienced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/02\/06\/ai-sell-off-stocks-amazon-oracle.html\">heightened volatility <\/a>this year as investors have swung from euphoria over the technology&#8217;s transformative potential to concerns about AI firms&#8217; stretched valuations. <\/p>\n<p>Tai Hui, APAC chief market strategist at JP Morgan, said on CNBC&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/asia-squawk-box\/\">Squawk Box Asia<\/a>&#8221; on Thursday that he considered the talk of AI bubble &#8220;a little premature&#8221; with plenty of quality names globally backed by solid fundamentals.  <\/p>\n<p>Investors are now making more discerning bets among the major cloud and AI infrastructure providers, whose large spending was supported by underlying earnings rather than heavy borrowing, Hui noted.   <\/p>\n<p>Chinese technology companies have taken a relatively frugal approach to AI development, with far less on capital expenditures than their American rivals while concentrating on the domestic market, said Rolf Bulk, analyst at Futurum Group. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"Placeholder-ArticleBody-Video-108228641\">\n<div role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" id=\"Placeholder-ArticleBody-Video-108228641\" class=\"PlaceHolder-wrapper\" data-vilynx-id=\"7000396081\" data-test=\"VideoPlaceHolder\">\n<div class=\"InlineVideo-videoEmbed\" id=\"InlineVideo-0\" data-test=\"InlineVideo\">\n<div class=\"InlineVideo-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"InlineVideo-inlineThumbnailContainer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"InlineVideo-videoThumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108228642-17635852411763585238-42619762029-1080pnbcnews.jpg?v=1763585241&amp;w=750&amp;h=422&amp;vtcrop=y\" alt=\"AI volatility should be looked at as reset opportunities not a bubble: Morgan Stanley's Sherry Paul\"\/><span class=\"InlineVideo-videoButton\"\/><span\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/02\/12\/chinese-ai-stocks-new-model-and-agent-releases-zhipu-minimax.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information on Zhipu&#8217;s AI service on the web, dubbed Z.ai, arranged on a computer in Shanghai, Jan. 7, 2026. 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