Organisation
Tsinghua University
China's leading university for AI research, whose labs and alumni seeded much of the country's large-model industry.
Tsinghua University, in Beijing, is widely regarded as China's leading university for artificial-intelligence research. It founded a dedicated Institute for Artificial Intelligence in 2018, chaired by the Turing Award laureate Andrew Chi-Chih Yao and led by the academician Bo Zhang, and in 2024 added a separate School of Artificial Intelligence. Its labs and alumni have seeded much of China's large-model industry — several of the research groups and companies behind the country's most prominent models trace back to Tsinghua faculty and graduates — making the university a recurring name in accounts of China's AI capability.
- Category
- Academic labs & institutes
- Founded
- 2018
- HQ
- Beijing, CN
- Key people
- Bo Zhang, Andrew Chi-Chih Yao
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- Models & capabilities 2
- Open weights & ecosystem 1
Zhipu open-sources ChatGLM-6B
The 6.2-billion-parameter model, trained on roughly a trillion tokens of Chinese and English text, could run on a single consumer graphics card with 6GB of memory using INT4 quantisation.
Open weights & ecosystem · Models & capabilities
BAAI announces Wu Dao 2.0 at 1.75 trillion parameters
The Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence put the parameter count at ten times GPT-3's, a claim reported widely but never independently benchmarked.
Models & capabilities