Open-source extension Cline announced free in-product access to Z.ai's GLM-5.3 Flash (320B-A18B MoE, MIT license, 1M context, native multimodal). Cline reported it as the fastest-growing model in product history, capturing over 11% of total developer traffic within a week.

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  • ✓Open 320B-A18B MoE model captured >11% of Cline's total developer traffic within 7 days.
  • ✓Features MIT license, 1M context window, and native multimodal understanding.
  • ✓Highlights Cline's rapid distribution power for open-weight frontier coding models.
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