Artificial superintelligence (ASI) may arrive by 2030 but will likely only surpass humans in specific areas, according to Zhang Peng, CEO of Chinese startup Zhipu AI.
Speaking at the launch of the company’s latest large language model, GLM-4.6, Zhang said the timeline for ASI remained unclear.
«Achieving or exceeding human intelligence levels by 2030 might mean surpassing humans in one or several aspects, but likely still falling far short in many areas,» he noted.
The debate over when ASI will outpace humans has intensified. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman suggested it could happen before 2030, while SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son last year predicted it might arrive by 2035.
Founded in 2019 as a spinoff from Tsinghua University, Zhipu AI has become a key player in China’s AI race and has filed for a listing on mainland markets. The firm was recently highlighted by OpenAI as a fast-growing rival, though Zhang described its overseas expansion as «normal business.»
While Zhipu AI is not yet competing directly with U.S. firms in consumer subscriptions, Zhang said the company was gaining traction with enterprise clients and had launched a coding subscription plan for developers.
The new GLM-4.6 model, an upgrade of GLM-4.5 released in July, offers enhanced performance in coding, reasoning, writing and agent applications, Zhang said.
Kursiv Uzbekistan also reports that Apple may host another product event in October, with several updates to its hardware lineup expected before the end of the year.
