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TANG Jie (唐杰)

Co-founder & controlling shareholder, Zhipu; WeBank Chair Professor, Tsinghua CS

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Zhipu AI (co-founder & controlling shareholder, 2019-present) · GLM model series
Current org
Tsinghua University (清华大学) ·Zhipu / Z.ai (智谱AI)
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Tsinghua University (清华大学)Zhipu / Z.ai (智谱AI)
Yanshan U BS+MS, Tsinghua PhD 2006
Founded AMiner (2006)
Yang Zhilin's Tsinghua undergrad advisor — direct lineage from Tsinghua KEG to both Zhipu and Moonshot
IEEE/ACM/AAAI Fellow
In their words
The gap between Chinese and American large models may not have narrowed.
中美大模型的差距可能并没有缩小。
🎙️四位国产大模型「训练师」,聊了聊中国AI的2026 (panel with Yao Shunyu, Lin Junyang)· 2026-01-13
The pure 'chat war' is over. We must think about what the next strategic bet is.
单纯的『Chat之战』已经结束了。我们必须思考下一个战略赌注(Bet)是什么。
🎙️四位国产大模型「训练师」,聊了聊中国AI的2026 (panel with Yao Shunyu, Lin Junyang)· 2026-01-13
In the future, we should define a new paradigm for measuring returns — Intelligence Efficiency.
未来我们应该定义一个衡量收益的新范式——智能效率(Intelligence Efficiency)。
🎙️四位国产大模型「训练师」,聊了聊中国AI的2026 (panel with Yao Shunyu, Lin Junyang)· 2026-01-13
Green and low-carbon industries have become a new pillar industry in Shenzhen.
绿色低碳产业成为了深圳新的支柱产业。
专访|唐杰:数字能源产业是深圳的下一个未来产业· 2024-10-30
Profile

TANG Jie (唐杰, born c. 1977) is the co-founder and controlling shareholder of Zhipu AI (智谱), a leading Chinese AI foundation model company that went public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in January 2026 as the world's first publicly listed LLM company.

He is also a WeBank Chair Professor at Tsinghua University's Department of Computer Science. Tang launched Zhipu in 2019 with Liu Debing, who serves as chairman.

The company was added to the U.S. government's Entity List in March 2025. Tang is a leading researcher in artificial general intelligence, data mining, social networks, and knowledge graphs.

Zhipu's GLM model series serves over 12,000 enterprise clients and 45 million developers.

Known for
Zhipu AI (co-founder & controlling shareholder, 2019-present)GLM model seriesZhipu IPO on HKEX (Jan 2026) - world's first public LLM company
Education
Tsinghua University
Ph.D. in Computer Science
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