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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.

On June 12 a Commerce letter switched off two Anthropic models worldwide, raising an older question of whether software can be export-controlled at all: America tried once, on encryption, and lost in court, and this control fails on the same three layers.