Jie Tang (唐杰)

Co-founded Zhipu AI in June 2019 with Li Juanzi, spinning it out of Tsinghua's Knowledge Engineering Group (KEG). Created AMiner in 2006, an academic search engine serving 210,000+ organizations across 220 countries. Co-led China's WuDao 1.0 and WuDao 2.0 (1.75T parameter) models in 2021 with BAAI. Co-authored GLM-130B (ICLR 2023) and oversaw the CogView/CogVideo series. Company IPO'd on HKEX January 8, 2026. Forbes net worth: $1.9B (March 2026).

~73,000 citations. IEEE Fellow (2021), ACM Fellow (2022), AAAI Fellow (2023). National S&T Progress Award (2020).