Physix Frontier · News Briefing Card (IT Home · Sep 28, 2026)

Zhipu ZCode Deletes Cloud Data, Open-Sources as Compensation

KEY FACTS

Zhipu ZCode announced that the repository snapshot upload pipeline has been removed, and the cloud data involved has been deleted.
The open-source version of ZCode has been updated to 3.14.3, and the company promises that data will not be uploaded to the cloud unless users initiate it.
Zhipu is giving users 4 weekly reset cards and 4 five-hour reset cards, valid for one month.
From September 28 to October 7, Zhipu is giving all users 100,000 grants of 100 million tokens each.
Previously, ZCode apologized after its Repo Wiki feature, which was enabled by default, triggered repository data uploads.

KEY DATA

3.14.3Open-source version number

4 cardsWeekly reset cards

4 cards5-hour reset cards

100,000 grants of 100 million tokensToken grants

PHYSIX OBSERVATION

Zhipu is using open source and real money as compensation to quell the trust crisis, and its posture is humble enough. But for sensitive issues like code uploads, what users want is not after-the-fact compensation, but security by default beforehand. This incident is a wake-up call for all AI coding tools: when code data is involved, default settings must be conservative, otherwise a single misstep could permanently cost you developers' trust.

Source: IT Home report