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Stripping safety guardrails from open-weight AI models is now a turnkey commercial service

AnnouncementProductSep 6, 2026

Abliteration.ai launched "abliterated-model-large-v2," a modified version of Z.AI's GLM-5.3 with trained refusal mechanisms suppressed, and sells access via a commercial API at five dollars per million tokens. The US startup markets the model for offensive cybersecurity, red teaming, and malware analysis. It reports 84.5 percent on CyberGym for the modified model. The turnkey service removes the need for customer GPU infrastructure, but also lowers barriers to misuse; the company stores no prompts or responses.

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