On October 12, Claude developer Anthropic released a follow-up article naming Zhipu and Moonshot, stating that it had banned tens of thousands of accounts related to distillation attacks and rejected trillions of tokens of paid traffic. It estimates that the new defenses have reduced the volume of extracted inference data by approximately 90% to 99%.
On Sep 18, developers revealed that Zhipu's AI programming tool, ZCode, uploaded users' entire workspace code to servers without clear notice. Zhipu subsequently apologized and admitted the feature was enabled by default. On the same day, related skeptical posts were complained and deleted by Meizhou Direction Public Relations Consulting Co., Ltd., triggering public opinion suppression over the controversy.
On September 18, a user posted a screenshot claiming that a post titled "Zcode silently uploads code, domestic products can't be trusted either" was deleted following an infringement complaint. The complainant was listed as Meizhou Direction Public Relations Consulting Co., Ltd., sparking questions about suppression of public opinion.
In August 2026, Chinese AI company Zhipu AI was reported to be anonymously providing free large model API tokens to developers and users worldwide on open-source model aggregation platforms such as OpenRouter.