Jie Tang (唐杰)
Jie Tang is a professor of computer science at Tsinghua University, long affiliated with the department’s Knowledge Engineering Group (KEG). His research interests include artificial general intelligence (AGI), data mining, social networks, machine learning, and knowledge graphs. He is a Fellow of the ACM, AAAI, and IEEE, and a co-founder of Z.ai (the company was founded as Zhipu AI). See the Z.ai entry for the company.
Career and representative work
His Tsinghua profile lists:
- AMiner, a scholarly search system he created, covering more than 136 million researchers and over 200 million papers; the ArnetMiner paper won the SIGKDD Test-of-Time Award.
- The GLM pre-training line of research: GLM-130B (an open bilingual 130B-parameter model, ICLR’23), ChatGLM and ChatGLM-6B (nearly 10 million downloads), plus CogView, CogVideo, CodeGeeX, CogVLM, and AgentBench.
- Honors including an NSFC Distinguished Young Scholar grant, a second-place National Award for Science and Technology, and the SIGKDD Service Award.
The GLM architecture grew into Zhipu’s core model family: Zhipu and Tsinghua open-sourced GLM-130B in August 2022, and the company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in January 2026 (02513.HK). Its models center on the GLM family (see the Chinese Wikipedia entry on Zhipu). The English Wikipedia Z.ai article describes Zhipu as “founded in Beijing in 2019 by Jie Tang as a Tsinghua University spin-out” and calls him “co-founder of Z.ai” in its AMiner entry.
Mention in the show
Jie Tang is not a participant in the episode; the following is a host’s paraphrase. In Weekly #002’s chapter “Mistral、Kimi 与模型产品的不同选择” (Mistral, Kimi, and different choices in model products) of the Chinese transcript, Orange, while discussing models training on model output, says “我觉得唐杰老师不是说 GLM 6 要（来了）” (paraphrasing that Tang Jie said GLM 6 was coming) and adds that the next GLM 6 should arrive soon (paragraph). This is the host’s paraphrase of Tang Jie, not a statement by Tang Jie, and not an official GLM 6 release announcement; the GLM model family has its own GLM entry.
Frequently asked questions
Is Jie Tang a professor at Tsinghua University?
Yes. He is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University, affiliated with the Knowledge Engineering Group (KEG); see his Tsinghua profile.
What is Jie Tang’s relationship to Z.ai?
Z.ai is a large-model company spun out of Tsinghua University in 2019 (founded as Zhipu AI); the English Wikipedia Z.ai article says the company was founded by Jie Tang and calls him a co-founder. This site records his relationship to Z.ai as a co-founder, and the GLM line of research originated in his group at Tsinghua KEG.
What are Jie Tang’s most notable research contributions?
AMiner, the GLM-130B and ChatGLM large-model research, and projects such as CogView, CogVideo, CodeGeeX, and AgentBench; he is an ACM, AAAI, and IEEE Fellow, per his Tsinghua profile.
Has GLM 6 been released?
For GLM 6 release status, check the official channels: Z.ai’s official site and the GLM entry. The comment in episode 002 that Tang Jie said GLM 6 was coming is a host’s paraphrase, not a release fact.