Catherine Thorbecke

With his T-shirt and square-framed glasses, Zhang Peng looks more like an academic brainiac than a business executive. But the chief executive officer of Zhipu AI, one of the most storied startups in China’s booming artificial intelligence sector, groks the dichotomies of his domestic market better…

Wandering through the halls of China’s top artificial intelligence summit this week, I overheard heated debates on some of the thorniest issues facing the sector: How do we solve the problem of interoperability if hundreds of companies are launching their own AI agents? Which large language models…