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  "markdown": "Co-founder and deputy general manager, Z.ai.\n\nWang Shaolan co-founded Z.ai and is its deputy general manager, responsible for business development, financing and day-to-day operations. He has more than 20 years in the technology industry, including four years as chief executive of a Beijing technology company from 2013 to 2017, and worked at Tsinghua University from 2018 to 2019.\n\n## What Wang builds\n\n- [GLM-4.5-Air](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/glm-4-5-air.md), graded C, 59.1/100, in Open-weight models. GLM-4.5-Air is Z.ai's open-weight mixture-of-experts model for English and Chinese, 106B total and 12B active parameters, with thinking that turns off per request, tool calling and a 128K context, published in BF16 and FP8 under MIT. Co-founder and deputy general manager, Z.ai, researched 2026-10-28.\n- [GLM-4.7-Flash](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/glm-4-7-flash.md), graded B, 63/100, in Open-weight models. GLM-4.7-Flash is Z.ai's open-weight mixture-of-experts reasoning model, 30B parameters with about 3B active per token, for English and Chinese, published on Hugging Face in BF16 under the MIT licence. Co-founder and deputy general manager, Z.ai, researched 2026-10-28.\n- [GLM-5.3](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/glm-5-3.md), graded B, 64.6/100, in Open-weight models. GLM-5.3 is Z.ai's open-weight mixture-of-experts model for coding and long-horizon agent work, 744B parameters with 40B active and a 1M-token context, published on Hugging Face in FP8 and BF16 under its own licence. Co-founder and deputy general manager, Z.ai, researched 2026-10-28.\n- [GLM-5.3-Flash](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/glm-5-3-flash.md), graded B, 65.1/100, in Open-weight models. GLM-5.3-Flash is Z.ai's open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model, 320B parameters with 18B active and a 1,048,576-token context, published on Hugging Face in FP8 and BF16 under the MIT licence. Co-founder and deputy general manager, Z.ai, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Li Juanzi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/li-juanzi/), Co-founder and non-executive director, Z.ai\n- [Liu Debing](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/liu-debing/), Co-founder, chairman and executive director, Z.ai\n- [Tang Jie](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/tang-jie/), Co-founder and Chief Scientist (Chief AI Officer), Z.ai\n- [Xu Bin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/xu-bin/), Co-founder, Z.ai\n- [Zhang Peng](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/zhang-peng/), Co-founder, CEO, general manager and executive director, Z.ai\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Wang Shaolan?\n\nWang Shaolan co-founded Z.ai and is its deputy general manager, responsible for business development, financing and day-to-day operations. He has more than 20 years in the technology industry, including four years as chief executive of a Beijing technology company from 2013 to 2017, and worked at Tsinghua University from 2018 to 2019.\n\n### What does Z.ai (Zhipu AI) make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists GLM-4.5-Air, GLM-4.7-Flash, GLM-5.3 and GLM-5.3-Flash from Z.ai (Zhipu AI). GLM-4.5-Air is Z.ai's open-weight mixture-of-experts model for English and Chinese, 106B total and 12B active parameters, with thinking that turns off per request, tool calling and a 128K context, published in BF16 and FP8 under MIT.\n\n### How are Wang's tools graded?\n\nGLM-4.5-Air is graded C, 59.1 out of 100; GLM-4.7-Flash is graded B, 63 out of 100; GLM-5.3 is graded B, 64.6 out of 100; GLM-5.3-Flash is graded B, 65.1 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.5-Air\n- https://huggingface.co/zai-org\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhipu_AI\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_Jie\n- https://keg.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/jietang/\n- https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.7-Flash\n- https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.3\n- https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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