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Zhipu Raised HK$31.4B Yet Announced It Won't Chase Profit: How Big a Future Is Tang Jie's "Touch High" Betting On?

Zhipu founder Tang Jie's July 11 internal letter "The Great Wave Is Here" launches the Touch High plan: no short-term monetization for two years, strategic investment in AGI. Just placed HK$31.4B in shares yet announced no profit-chasing-betting on four engines: long-horizon tasks, autonomous agents, full self-training, and mechanistic interpretability, straight at ASI. A breakdown of this anti-commercial-common-sense gamble and its risks.