Being cut off only made Chinese developers nervous for five minutes
On September 5, Anthropic announced that it would not provide Claude to companies with Chinese backgrounds. That same evening, Zhipu immediately launched a relocation plan, cutting the price to one-seventh, increasing the speed to 55 characters per second, and offering 20 million free credits.
Foreigners use restrictions to force Chinese teams to pay high prices for overseas cloud proxies, but Zhipu simply removed the barriers, allowing a single link to move, turning anxiety into practical benefits.
Zhipu acted quickly because they had already trained the GLM large model for two years and were eyeing the replacement of overseas interfaces.
Anthropic's blockade was equivalent to free advertising, telling everyone still watching: "If you don't switch to domestic options, you'll have no way back."
As a result, within a day, many developers who had previously used Claude posted migration screenshots on Weibo, and server traffic increased threefold.
Zhipu seized the opportunity to launch enterprise consulting, guiding users step by step through concurrent configuration, effectively keeping customers firmly in their grasp.
The US tried to block China with technical barriers, but instead, Chinese teams discovered that domestic models are sufficient, easy to use, and cost-effective, boosting confidence.
Now, if there is another cutoff, people won't panic, but instead wait to see which company will offer more benefits next.
In the end, technological competition boils down to who can solve users' problems first, not who shouts the loudest.
Who do you think will be the next to face a cutoff? Leave your comments. If it really happens, which domestic company do you plan to switch to?
Original: www.toutiao.com/article/1842535462346760/
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