licensing

Z.ai published the 753-billion-parameter GLM-5.3 on Hugging Face two weeks after its API launch, but swapped GLM-5.2's MIT license for one that makes model hosts above $10 billion in revenue pass a Z.ai security review.

Qwen3.8-Max's weights went live today under a license that charges companies above $50M in revenue, Kimi K3's requires a separate deal above $20M (reportedly at up to 30%), and Meta's Glimmer is Apache-clean: 'open weight' just fractured into regimes of who pays.

In roughly fourteen days, four Chinese labs shipped or previewed near-frontier open-weight models (LongCat-2.0, Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8-Max, GLM-5.2), and because 'open' is a spectrum being gamed, this map grades actual openness, not press-release openness.