Z.ai launches ZCode to challenge Cursor, Claude Code and GitHub Copilot in AI coding

The interesting part is not that another coding agent shipped, it is the pricing and distribution playbook. Undercutting western tools by a wide margin while wiring the agent into chat apps that dominate professional communication in China is a distribution move Cursor and GitHub Copilot cannot easily copy. Open weight, cheap and already benchmark competitive is a combination worth tracking closely.