HN: GLM built its own inference infrastructure
petrusenko_max · x · 2026-09-17
A Hacker News discussion highlights that GLM (Zhipu) built its own inference infrastructure rather than relying fully on third-party clouds, sparking community debate on cost, control, and engineering capability of the Chinese AI lab's serving stack.
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