Latest open artifacts (#24): Motif-3, GLM-5.3, Hy4-preview and open model licenses
Interconnects surveys new open models—Motif-3, GLM-5.3, Hy4-preview—while analyzing a licensing split: Western labs opening up, Chinese frontier labs getting restrictive.
The roundup covers Motif-3 (MIT license, strong scores for its size), GLM-5.3 (switched from MIT to a custom license with a $10 billion revenue threshold and undefined 'affiliates' clause requiring Z.AI security review), and Tencent's Hy4-preview (competent but prone to overthinking). It also notes dots3-note-prev from RedNote/Xiaohongshu (won IMO 2026 with a perfect score), Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (125B-A6B with GDN and Qwen Sparse Attention), NVIDIA Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16, and Ling-3.0-flash. The core theme: Google and Meta adopted Apache 2.0 while Chinese frontier labs (Zhipu, Kimi K3, MiniMax M3) adopted restrictive commercial licenses.
- GLM-5.3 adopts custom license with $10B threshold security review
- Motif-3 ships under MIT with strong scores for its size
- Tencent Hy4-preview competent but with overthinking issues
- Chinese labs become restrictive as Western labs open up
- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next previews 125B-A6B sparse-attention architecture
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Avid Artifacts readers know that we have been covering not only models but also their licenses for quite some time. There was a period when custom licenses were all the rage, for example the custom Qwen2. 5 72B-Instruct license or the Llama licenses .
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