Chinese artificial intelligence unicorn Z.ai has released a new flagship model, the GLM-4.6, with improved coding abilities, hinting at the start-up’s ambition to compete with American industry leaders Anthropic and OpenAI in the key battleground of coding agents. Beijing-based Z.ai, formerly known as Zhipu, said on Tuesday that GLM-4.6 had “competitive advantages” over leading domestic and international models such as Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4, released in May, and DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp, released...