From Tsinghua's KEG Lab to Zhipu: Zhang Peng Joined in 2002 Under 'Paper to Product'
ccerrato147 · x · 2026-11-09
Zhang Peng joined Tsinghua's Knowledge Engineering Group in 2002 as a graduate student. The lab's rule was 'Paper to Product': research had to end in something customers would buy. The first product was AMiner, an academic search engine, which became Zhipu in 2019.
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