The internal letter from founder Tang Jie details a "Touch High" strategy focusing on long-horizon task capability, fully autonomous agent systems, and self-evolution for future AI. Zhipu AI plans to invest heavily in these areas over the next two years and will open-source its GLM-5.2 model under the MIT License. The GLM-5.2 model features a practical 1M-token context window, positioning openness as a key part of its access and safety strategy.
A major Chinese frontier lab is committing significant resources to agentic and self-improving AI, while open-sourcing a large context model.