GLM-5.3
GLM-5.3 is an open-weight language model from Z.ai (Zhipu AI), released on August 14, 2026. It is a mixture-of-experts model with 744B total parameters, of which 40B are active for each token. The model takes text input.
- Developer
- Z.ai (Zhipu AI)
- Released
- August 14, 2026
- Total parameters
- 744B
- Active parameters per token
- 40B
- Architecture
- MoE
- Input
- Text
- License
- GLM-5.3 License
- Commercial use
- Yes, with conditions
- Official weights, GB
- 755.4 GB
- Hugging Face repository
- huggingface.co
- Checked on
The weights are released under the GLM-5.3 License. Commercial use is allowed with conditions. Model-as-a-service operators with group revenue above US$10 billion over 12 months must pass a security review by Z.ai before commercial use.
The official weights on Hugging Face take about 755 GB in FP8. Running the model needs at least that much memory across GPUs and system RAM, plus room for the context cache; quantized versions need less.
- Total parameters, billions
- 744B
- Active parameters, billions
- 40B
- License type
- Custom license
- License conditions
- Model-as-a-service operators with group revenue above US$10 billion over 12 months must pass a security review by Z.ai before commercial use.
- Weights precision
- FP8
- Official quantized or alternative versions
- zai-org/GLM-5.3-BF16 (full precision)
- License text
- huggingface.co
- Sources
Page URL Hugging Face model card https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.3/raw/main/README.md License text on Hugging Face https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.3/raw/main/LICENSE Hugging Face API https://huggingface.co/api/models/zai-org/GLM-5.3?expand=safetensors GitHub file https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zai-org/GLM-5/main/README.md z.ai announcement https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3