Company profile

Zhipu AI / THUDM AI video company profile

Zhipu AI is a Chinese foundation-model company with academic roots in Tsinghua's THUDM ecosystem, known for GLM/ChatGLM and open multimodal model releases including CogVideoX.

Company Snapshot

Region: China

Founded: 2019

Type: private / academic-origin team

Confidence: confirmed.

AI Video Products

  • CogVideo
  • CogVideoX
  • CogVideoX1.5

Why It Matters

Company context affects access, distribution, and product reliability.

CogVideoX is most relevant for developers, researchers, and technically comfortable creators who want open video models they can inspect, fine-tune, or run in community tooling.

Related Models

Milestones

  • 2019Zhipu AI was founded.Source
  • 2024-08-06CogVideoX-2B release line appeared in the open repository.Source
  • 2024-11-08CogVideoX1.5 was released.Source

Business Model

Foundation model platform, enterprise services, APIs, open model ecosystem, and consumer AI products.