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Z.ai releases GLM-5.3 weights under revenue and security gates
Z.ai releases GLM-5.3 weights under new license requiring $10B+ revenue companies to pass security review.
Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack: 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 — Z.ai put the GLM-5.3 weights on Hugging Face, but dropped the MIT license.
Providers above $10 billion in revenue now need a security review.
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§ how this story moved
- primary — Together AI — Blog publishes the launch post.
- Thenewstack picks up coverage.