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THUDM / Tsinghua
Tsinghua University Knowledge Engineering Group (THUDM) — research lab behind LongBench and other influential open LLM evaluation and model work.
Last reviewed: 31 July 2026
Quick facts
- Founded
- 1911
- Headquarters
- Beijing, China
- Ownership
- Public
- Open source
- Yes
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Company profile
- Founded
- 1911
- Headquarters
- Beijing, China
- Funding
- Academic / public research
- Ownership
- Public
- Country
- China
- Open source
- Yes
- Cloud provider
- No
- Website
- https://github.com/THUDM
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