According to 1M AI News monitoring, Mercedes-Benz China announced that an edge-side multimodal large model jointly developed with Tsinghua University and Zhipu, an AI large model company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in January this year, will be deployed in the next-generation Maybach S-Class and the new S-Class sedan. The model is deployed in the rear-seat entertainment system, integrating natural language processing with multimodal understanding and generation capabilities in vision, audio, and other modalities. Combined with in-vehicle cameras and other perceptual hardware, it completes inference under local computing power conditions. According to Zhipu's official statement, Mercedes-Benz has become the first automotive brand to apply multimodal large models in rear-seat entertainment systems.

Gate News report, on March 25, Hong Kong stocks' AI application sector strengthened. Deeproute.ai-W (00800.HK) rose 8%, Haizhi Technology Group (02706.HK) rose 6.77%, Zhipu (02513.HK) rose 4.58%.

Gate News reports that on March 19, Hong Kong-listed OpenClaw concept stocks collectively pulled back. Xunce (03317.HK) fell more than 6%, MINIMAX-W (00100.HK) fell more than 5%, and Zhipu (02513.HK) fell more than 4%. Additionally, Tencent Holdings (00700.HK), Alibaba (09988.HK), Kingsoft Cloud (03896.HK), NetEase-S (09999.HK), Baidu (09888.HK) and others also experienced corresponding declines.

Gate News report shows that on March 18, the Hong Kong stock market displayed the following: MINIMAX-W(00100.HK) rose over 27%, now trading at 1311 Hong Kong dollars; Zhipu(02513.HK) rose over 20%, now trading at 746 Hong Kong dollars, hitting a record high.

Zhipu AI released the GLM-5-Turbo model on March 16, a high-speed optimized version of GLM-5 customized specifically for OpenClaw agent scenarios. The model achieves 2-3x speed improvements, supports 200K context length and 128K maximum output, and optimizes tool calling stability. It demonstrated significantly superior performance in benchmarks compared to GLM-5, while also raising API pricing and launching personal user subscription plans.