July 12, 2026

Zhipu’s founder says frontier AI should stay open to everyone. His own government may disagree.

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The founder of China’s most prominent AI lab has made an unambiguous case for openness. Frontier AI should stay broadly accessible rather than controlled by a select few, Zhipu’s Tang Jie wrote in an internal memo reviewed by Bloomberg. His argument...