According to Tang Jie, founder of Zhipu AI, the Beijing lab behind the open-weight GLM 5.2 model, the future of business is moving toward the NPC, or no-person company. In a note posted on Rednote, Tang argues that the one-person company (OPC) is a transitional phase, and the endpoint is a company with nobody running it. His reasoning rests on three converging capabilities: models that can hold a task for weeks or months, systems of agents that coordinate independently, and models that train and improve themselves without human engineers. He describes agents that will eventually “independently debate, collaborate, review code, and allocate resources.” Tang frames this as a technical prediction, noting progress on long-context handling, retrieval-augmented generation, faster model release cycles, and early self-evaluation in frontier models. He traces Zhipu’s lineage to an academic search project built on a single desktop computer in 2006 and the 2021 decision to commit to a large model with hundreds of billions of parameters. He describes the company’s Hong Kong listing this January as a reset, with Zhipu redirecting resources back into foundational research.