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Tsinghua University

China's leading university for AI research, whose labs and alumni seeded much of the country's large-model industry.

4 entries · June 2021 – August 2026

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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  • Benchmarks & progress 2
  • Models & capabilities 2
  • Safety & alignment 1
  • Open weights & ecosystem 1

  1. A benchmark finds agents can't yet redesign training algorithms

    The best agent closed under a fifth of the distance between an unmodified algorithm and the theoretical optimum, given four hours per task on a single B300 GPU.

    Benchmarks & progress · Safety & alignment

  2. ASI-Bench measures how far agents are from autonomous science

    Withdrawing step-by-step guidance and forcing agents to choose their own research methods dropped the average score from 50.91 to 26.62 on a 0–100 scale.

    MITBenchmarks & progress

  3. 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.

    Zhipu AIOpen weights & ecosystem · Models & capabilities

  4. 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.

    Beijing Academy of Artificial IntelligenceModels & capabilities

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