Zhipu GLM-5.3 arrives on Amazon Bedrock with AWS revenue share

On October 6, 2026, Zhipu's GLM-5.3 went live on Amazon Bedrock, AWS's model platform, with AWS and Zhipu sharing revenue based on model usage volume, according to a Cailian Press report cited by ITHome.

The report said the Bedrock arrangement is not an isolated deal. Zhipu has recently put similar revenue-sharing models in place with several overseas cloud providers, after previously saying it intended to add a revenue-sharing path through overseas cloud platforms with meaningful scale potential. In mainland China, the company has signed comparable agreements with major cloud providers including Alibaba Cloud's Bailian platform, while Huawei Cloud has already listed GLM-5.3 and reached an intent to pursue a similar arrangement, according to the report, which described the result as a revenue-sharing system spanning domestic and overseas clouds.

Earnings figures show Zhipu's total revenue for the first half of 2026 reached RMB 954 million, up 399.7% year over year, with a net loss attributable to shareholders of RMB 2.071 billion, narrowing 12.1% year over year. In September 2026, the company announced roughly $5 billion in funding, made up of about $2 billion in share placement and about $3 billion in convertible bonds, or about RMB 33.572 billion at the exchange rate cited in the report. Zhipu said the proceeds are mainly for R&D on its next-generation GLM foundation models and a fully self-training system, along with deployment and upgrades of large-scale training, production inference, compute resources and related technical infrastructure. So far, the publicly reported state of play ends with GLM-5.3's listing on Amazon Bedrock under a revenue-sharing model.