Academia
Beijing, China
Tsinghua University
Most of China's open-weight model lineage runs through Tsinghua labs and their spinouts — the supply side of the China column in this catalog.
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Key findings
- 2021
GLM — a bilingual pretraining objective
Du, Tang et al., KEG
An autoregressive blank-infilling objective unifying understanding and generation, released with open weights.
Why it matters here · The base of the GLM/Zhipu product family tracked here, and a template for other Chinese open releases.
- 2019
Tianjic — hybrid neuromorphic chip
Luping Shi and team
A single chip running both spiking and artificial neural networks, demonstrated on an autonomous bicycle. Nature cover.
Why it matters here · The clearest signal that China's accelerator strategy includes non-GPU architectures, not just GPU substitution.