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Definition
An open-weight safety delay is a deliberate holdback of publicly releasing model weights after API/product launch to complete safety evaluation and hardening — especially when open-weight-models show emergent dual-use capabilities.
Key Points
- First explicit GLM-series holdback: glm-5-3 (~2 weeks / ~Aug 28, 2026) for cyber capability hardening (zhipu-ai)
- Prior glm-5-2 weights landed on Hugging Face within days under MIT
- Policy signal in open-weights-agentic-models-2026 / China–US open-weights race
- Dual readings: responsible disclosure vs marketing theater — report neutrally