# 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) — retained record

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Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260828/p25#a260828p25

<a href="https://thenewstack.io/zai-glm-weights-license/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260828/i25.jpg" vspace="4" /></a>
<p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260828/p25#a260828p25" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Frederic Lardinois / <a href="http://thenewstack.io/">The New Stack</a>:<br />
<span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://thenewstack.io/zai-glm-weights-license/">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</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Z.ai put the GLM-5.3 weights on Hugging Face, but dropped the MIT license.&nbsp; Providers above $10 billion in revenue now need a security review.</p>
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