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GLM-5: The Open-Source Frontier Model You Can Self-Host On February 11, 2026, Z.ai (formerly Zhipu AI) released GLM-5 on Hugging Face under an MIT license. That single decision changed the landscape of open-source AI. For the first time, a model that...

GLM-5: The Open-Source Frontier Model You Can Self-Host On February 11, 2026, Z.ai (formerly Zhipu AI) released GLM-5 on Hugging Face under an MIT license. That single decision changed the landscape of open-source AI. For the first time, a model that...

Just two days ago (Feb 11, 2026), Zhipu AI (aka Z.ai) dropped GLM-5 - a massive 744B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model under full MIT license. Trained entirely on Huawei Ascend chips (no NVIDIA in sight), it's already topping open-weight leade...
