Founder of a listed tool

Zhang Peng

Named behind 4 listings on Anchor Terminal.

Co-founder, CEO, general manager and executive director, Z.ai

Zhang Peng co-founded Z.ai in 2019 and is its chief executive, general manager and an executive director, responsible for business development, research and day-to-day operations. He worked at Tsinghua University from 2005 to 2020 and holds bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science and a doctorate in electronic information from Tsinghua.

What Zhang builds

GLM-4.5-Air C · 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, CEO, general manager and executive director, Z.ai, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it
GLM-4.7-Flash B · 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, CEO, general manager and executive director, Z.ai, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it
GLM-5.3 B · 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, CEO, general manager and executive director, Z.ai, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it
GLM-5.3-Flash B · 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, CEO, general manager and executive director, Z.ai, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it

Works with

Li Juanzi Co-founder and non-executive director, Z.ai
Liu Debing Co-founder, chairman and executive director, Z.ai
Tang Jie Co-founder and Chief Scientist (Chief AI Officer), Z.ai
Wang Shaolan Co-founder and deputy general manager, Z.ai
Xu Bin Co-founder, Z.ai

Questions

Who is Zhang Peng?

What does Z.ai (Zhipu AI) make?

Anchor 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.

How are Zhang's tools graded?

GLM-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.

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