Mable on X: "The Trailblazer: How a Tsinghua Lab Spawned the World's 1st LLM IPO" / X
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Days before ringing the bell at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, @Zai_org Zhipu AI's CEO Zhang Peng sat down on crutches to tell the story of a six-year journey from academic obscurity to a global milestone — and to explain why the hardest part is still ahead. A few days before his company was set to make history, Zhang Peng snapped his Achilles tendon on a business trip. He arrived at the interview on crutches and shrugged it off: break a leg. On January 8, 2026, the luck held. Zhipu AI listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, becoming the first large language model company in the world to go…
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