{"slug": "zhipu-ai-founder-outlines-touch-high-plan-for-agi-research", "title": "Zhipu AI founder outlines Touch High plan for AGI research", "summary": "Zhipu AI founder Tang Jie announced a 'Touch High' plan in an internal letter, prioritizing AGI research over short-term commercialization. The plan focuses on long-horizon tasks, autonomous agents, self-training, and extreme safety governance, with mechanistic interpretability as a key safety research area.", "body_md": "Zhipu AI founder Tang Jie told employees in an internal letter that the Chinese foundation model developer will launch a “Touch High” plan, focusing on AGI research rather than short-term commercialization, according to LatePost. Zhipu AI is the company behind the GLM series of large language models.\n\nTang listed four technical priorities for the plan: long-horizon tasks, autonomous agent systems, fully self-training, and extreme safety governance. The letter also singled out mechanistic interpretability, which studies the logic behind model decisions, as a major safety research direction. [[LatePost](https://www.latepost.com/news/dj_detail?id=3637), in Chinese]", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/zhipu-ai-founder-outlines-touch-high-plan-for-agi-research", "canonical_source": "https://technode.com/2026/07/13/zhipu-ai-founder-outlines-touch-high-plan-for-agi-research/", "published_at": "2026-07-13 09:30:37+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-13 10:08:33.966809+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-agents", "ai-safety", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Zhipu AI", "Tang Jie", "GLM", "LatePost"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/zhipu-ai-founder-outlines-touch-high-plan-for-agi-research", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/zhipu-ai-founder-outlines-touch-high-plan-for-agi-research.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/zhipu-ai-founder-outlines-touch-high-plan-for-agi-research.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/zhipu-ai-founder-outlines-touch-high-plan-for-agi-research.jsonld"}}