Zhipu: $110M Revenue, $700M Loss — What Exactly Is the Open-Weights Business Selling?
ccerrato147 · x · 2026-11-09
Wrapping up his Zhipu thread, ccerrato147 poses the core question: in 2025 Zhipu reported $110M revenue against a $700M loss, and landed on the US Entity List in January. Open weights mean every downloader becomes a competitor rather than a customer. What it actually sells is cloud API access plus on-prem deployment — free downloads still need GPUs, uptime, security review and 3am support. That gap is the business, and so far it doesn't close.
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