Latest open artifacts (#24): Motif-3, GLM-5.3, Hy4-preview and open model licenses

Nathan Lambert · 8 Sept 2026

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Frontier Chinese AI labs are moving toward more restrictive licensing terms for their open models.

Their wordsChinese model makers at the frontier, however, are becoming more restrictive
Our reading
Hybrid and sparse-attention model architectures will become more widely adopted as the ecosystem catches up.

Their wordswe expect similar architectures to become more popular and the ecosystem to fix integrations by the time Qwen4 drops.

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