Zhipu AI
智谱AI
Overview
Tsinghua-spun AGI company founded in 2019, creator of the GLM model family. Active participant in Chinese AI safety and governance initiatives, including safety commitments and evaluation work alongside its frontier model development.
Leadership
- Zhang PengCEO
- Tang JieCo-founder & Chief Scientist
Website
https://www.zhipuai.cn/Connections
- MembershipEvidenceEN
Quoted in Voices
AI Risk Governance & Agent Liability
“When the most advanced frontier models overseas are delayed from full public release due to risk considerations, and their leaders publicly warn that AI's profound impact will reshape global power structures, we should be even more clear-headed: the pursuit of superintelligence and the research on superalignment must advance in lockstep.”
Tang Jie (唐杰) · July 2026Read full quote →AI Risk Governance & Agent Liability
“The more powerful the capability, the more robust the safety constraints must be. From its founding, Zhipu established a principle: AI must serve human welfare and national strategy. The company rejects bolt-on safety patches, instead writing human ethics, social norms, and national laws into the model's value function as foundational axioms. Zhipu plans to invest tens of billions in mechanistic interpretability research.”
Tang Jie (唐杰) · July 2026Read full quote →Open-Source AI
“We firmly believe that true safety is not built on technological closure and barriers, but emerges from broad co-construction, sharing, and oversight in the open. We recently released GLM-5.2, our most capable open-source model to date, supporting truly usable million-token context. It is open to all users and will be formally open-sourced under the most permissive MIT license — anyone can download, deploy, and commercialize it, with no restrictions on any entity.”
Tang Jie (唐杰) · July 2026Read full quote →Defining AGI
“We have a plain but demanding definition of AGI: AGI is not the intelligence of any single genius, but the sum of all human intelligence. It should possess the ability to create original knowledge at the level of a 'theory of relativity.' This is our only standard for measuring whether we have truly reached the summit.”
Tang Jie (唐杰) · July 2026Read full quote →