Zhipu’s chief scientist, Tang Jie, was Yang Zhilin’s undergraduate mentor at Tsinghua University, where Yang Zhilin is the founder of Kimi. Meanwhile, several of the founders of The Dark Side of the Moon are classmates—undergraduate students—from the 2011 cohort at Tsinghua University. Yang Zhilin isn’t just someone who “followed Tang Jie in his early years”: later on, he continued to work together with Tang Jie on projects such as GLM, P-Tuning v2, and FewNLU, which creates a real overlap in papers with Zhipu’s technical roadmap. And there’s also.... I just checked.