Zhipu AI
The Chinese model company originating from Tsinghua
China Frontier lab Mixed
WHAT IT IS
Zhipu AI was founded in 2019; its technology comes from Tsinghua University’s knowledge-engineering lab. It develops the GLM family spanning language and multimodal models, releasing them both as open weights and via a commercial API, and offers agent and tool-calling capabilities.
Why it matters
It keeps releasing the GLM family as open weights, making it one of the widely used base models in Chinese academic and open-source settings.
Key milestones
- 2019
Founded
- 2023
Released the GLM family