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Zhipu releases GLM-5.1—744 billion parameters under MIT license

40 billion active parameters in MoE architecture; 200K context window; optimized for 8-hour autonomous agent work. On April 7, a single major announcement cleaves Western closed-model strategy, reshaping open-source momentum.

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