Appears to be cheap and effective, though under suspicion.
But the personal and policy issues are about as daunting as the technology is promising.
Some the terms, possibly similar to many such services:
- The use of Z.ai to develop, train, or enhance any algorithms, models, or technologies that directly or indirectly compete with us is prohibited
- Any other usage that may harm the interests of us is strictly forbidden
- You must not publicly disclose [...] defects through the internet or other channels.
- [You] may not remove, modify, or obscure any deep synthesis service identifiers added to Outputs by Z.ai, regardless of the form in which such identifiers are presented
- For individual users, we reserve the right to process any User Content to improve our existing Services and/or to develop new products and services, including for our internal business operations and for the benefit of other customers.
- You hereby explicitly authorize and consent to our: [...] processing and storage of such User Content in locations outside of the jurisdiction where you access or use the Services
- You grant us and our affiliates an unconditional, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully transferable, sub-licensable, perpetual, worldwide license to access, use, host, modify, communicate, reproduce, adapt, create derivative works from, publish, perform, and distribute your User Content
- These Terms [...] shall be governed by the laws of Singapore
To state the obvious competition issues: If/since Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, X.AI, et al are spending billions on data centers, research, and services, they'll need to make some revenue. Z.ai could dump services out of a strategic interest in destroying competition. This dumping is good for the consumer short-term, but if it destroys competition, bad in the long term. Still, customers need to compete with each other, and thus would be at a disadvantage if they don't take advantage of the dumping.
Once your job or company depends on it to succeed, there really isn't a question.
But the personal and policy issues are about as daunting as the technology is promising.
Some the terms, possibly similar to many such services:
To state the obvious competition issues: If/since Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, X.AI, et al are spending billions on data centers, research, and services, they'll need to make some revenue. Z.ai could dump services out of a strategic interest in destroying competition. This dumping is good for the consumer short-term, but if it destroys competition, bad in the long term. Still, customers need to compete with each other, and thus would be at a disadvantage if they don't take advantage of the dumping.Once your job or company depends on it to succeed, there really isn't a question.