GLM-4.5 Hit #1 on Hugging Face Within 48 Hours of MIT-Licensed Release
ccerrato147 · x · 2026-11-09
In July 2025 Zhipu released GLM-4.5 with open weights under the MIT license; within 48 hours it topped Hugging Face. Companies outside China then began shipping it inside their own products — a key node in Zhipu's strategy of giving away the model and monetizing deployment.
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