Z.ai's GLM-5.2 ships with permissive MIT open weights

GLM-5.2 arrived with full MIT-licensed weights within a week of launch, reported to punch above its size on long-context retrieval and multilingual tasks — part of a strong June wave of open-weight drops.

What it means An MIT-licensed model you can run and modify on your own hardware is a real self-hosting option — no per-token bill, no access gate.