The Chinese startup that rattled Big Tech is back with an AI coding tool that undercuts US pricing

The Chinese startup behind GLM 5.2 released ZCode, an AI coding harness in competition with Cursor and GitHub Copilot. Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images Z.ai, the buzzy Chinese startup behind GLM 5.2, debuted a new AI coding tool to compete with Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. ZCode connects to other frontier models and offers pricing tiers below those of its American competitors. "Competition and collaboration are what push all of us forward," ZCode head Zixuan Li wrote on X. Cursor ha...