# agentic engineering

A Night of Acceleration: Zhipu’s GLM‑5 Debuts as MiniMax and DeepSeek Race to Keep Up

Three leading Chinese AI firms unveiled near‑simultaneous upgrades that signal a shift from demo‑level coding assistants to production‑oriented, agentic systems. Zhipu launched GLM‑5 as an open‑source foundation for long‑horizon engineering tasks, while MiniMax and DeepSeek pushed product and context upgrades aimed at real‑world throughput and extended interactions.