Z.ai releases GLM-5.3's weights under a new license requiring companies with $10B+ in revenue over 12 months to pass Z.ai's security review to host the model (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)
Z.ai kept GLM-5.3 downloadable, but put a gate on the biggest commercial hosts.
The weights are on Hugging Face under the new GLM-5.3 License, replacing the MIT license used before. Companies with more than $10 billion in aggregate revenue over the past 12 months must pass Z.ai’s security review before hosting the model. Z.ai says GLM-5.3 is aimed at agentic coding and cyber defense, and one company post said it ran two extra weeks of safety evaluations before release. Techmeme's note
The weights are on Hugging Face under the new GLM-5.3 License, replacing the MIT license used before. Companies with more than $10 billion in aggregate revenue over the past 12 months must pass Z.ai’s security review before hosting the model. Z.ai says GLM-5.3 is aimed at agentic coding and cyber defense, and one company post said it ran two extra weeks of safety evaluations before release. Techmeme's note
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