Zhipu AI

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Zhipu AI (智谱AI) is a Chinese artificial intelligence company founded in 2019 as a spin-off from Tsinghua University's esteemed Knowledge Engineering Group (KEG) at the Department of Computer Science. Headquartered in Beijing, Zhipu AI was co-founded by Professor Tang Jie and Dr. Zhang Peng, building on years of academic research in knowledge graph reasoning and large-scale language modeling. Zhipu AI is best known for developing the GLM (General Language Model) series and the ChatGLM family of conversational LLMs, which are among the most widely adopted Chinese-language AI models globally. ChatGLM-6B, released in open-source, became a landmark model in China for its ability to run on consumer-grade hardware while delivering strong Chinese and English language understanding. The company's flagship commercial model, GLM-4, consistently ranks at the top of Chinese AI benchmarks alongside GPT-4-class models, offering strong performance in long-context reasoning, multimodal understanding, and agentic task execution. Zhipu AI also launched CodeGeeX, an open-source code generation model, and provides enterprise solutions across finance, healthcare, and education. Zhipu AI has raised substantial funding from prominent investors including Alibaba, Tencent, and Legend Capital. In February 2024, the company raised $438 million in a Series D round, bringing its total funding to over $1.5 billion at a valuation exceeding $2.4 billion. Zhipu AI is regarded as one of China's "AI Tiger" companies and a leading candidate in the race to develop Chinese-language foundation models.

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