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Zhipu AI founder outlines Touch High plan for AGI research · TechNode

AnnouncementResearchJul 13, 2026

Zhipu AI will launch a "Touch High" plan prioritizing AGI research over short-term commercialization, according to an internal letter from founder Tang Jie reported by LatePost. The plan names four technical priorities: long-horizon tasks, autonomous agent systems, fully self-training, and extreme safety governance. Tang also highlighted mechanistic interpretability as a major safety research direction. Zhipu AI is the company behind the GLM series of large language models.

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