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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
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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
PageURL
Hugging Face model cardhttps://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.3/raw/main/README.md
License text on Hugging Facehttps://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.3/raw/main/LICENSE
Hugging Face APIhttps://huggingface.co/api/models/zai-org/GLM-5.3?expand=safetensors
GitHub filehttps://raw.githubusercontent.com/zai-org/GLM-5/main/README.md
z.ai announcementhttps://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3
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