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GLM-5.3-Flash

GLM-5.3-Flash is an open-weight language model from Z.ai (Zhipu AI), released on August 26, 2026. It is a mixture-of-experts model with 320B total parameters, of which 18B are active for each token. The model accepts text and image input.

Developer
Z.ai (Zhipu AI)
Released
August 26, 2026
Total parameters
320B
Active parameters per token
18B
Architecture
MoE
Input
Text, image
License
MIT
Commercial use
Yes
Official weights, GB
328.3 GB
Hugging Face repository
huggingface.co
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The weights are released under the MIT license, which allows commercial use.

The official weights on Hugging Face take about 328 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
320B
Active parameters, billions
18B
License type
MIT
License conditions
MIT: keep the copyright and permission notice.
Weights precision
FP8
Official quantized or alternative versions
zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash-BF16 (full precision)
License text
huggingface.co
Sources
PageURL
Hugging Face model cardhttps://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash/raw/main/README.md
Hugging Face weights indexhttps://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash/raw/main/model.safetensors.index.json
GitHub filehttps://raw.githubusercontent.com/zai-org/GLM-5/main/README.md
z.ai announcementhttps://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3-flash
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