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GLM-5.3, 756GB of Weights, and the Ten Billion Dollar Gate

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Z.ai released the weights for GLM-5.3 on Friday. The release package includes 756 GB of model files across 141 Safetensors shards, support for vLLM and SGLang, and an architectural configuration with 256 routed experts where 8 activate per token across a one-million-token context window. Two techni…

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  1. 2026-08-29 16:51 · DEV Community — AI
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    GLM-5.3, 756GB of Weights, and the Ten Billion Dollar Gate

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