Chinese AI models see intl adoption surge

Shift from winning attention to selling through major global platforms lauded

United States-based cloud computing giant Amazon Web Services said on Tuesday that it has made GLM-5.3, the latest flagship model from China's Z.ai, available on the Amazon Bedrock platform, while sources familiar with the matter confirmed that AWS would share revenue with Z.ai based on the usage of the model.

Industry experts said the move underscores a broader shift in the global expansion of Chinese artificial intelligence models: from winning attention among overseas developers to gaining real-world adoption, while increasingly being sold through major international commercial platforms.

Z.ai is not alone. AWS has added six open-weight Chinese models, including DeepSeek V3.2, MiniMax M2.1 and Alibaba's Qwen3 Coder Next, into the Amazon Bedrock platform. In September, Moonshot's Kimi K3 also became available on Amazon Bedrock.