So they can use GLM from a trusted provider, that is highly committed to respect local laws and regulations.

Just think about a defense contractor. Choosing trustworthy vendors is crucial to them. They can't just use a random provider from Open Router. They need to vet and certify their vendors. If they already have Mistral on the list of approved vendors, they can now just switch to the most recent open weight LLM if Mistral starts serving it.

They can use the model and the data and requests all stay in the EU region. As opposed to sending to Anthropic, Microsoft or Google. Granted, those companies can assert that data will stay in the EU region too, but they'd have to be believed, which, some may find tricky lately.

There's many EU companies that want to have a contractual relationship with only another EU company and be absolutely assured that the models, the contents of the KV cache, any logging, all access control/credential systems, billing platform, etc are all hosted on EU-company owned hardware located in an EU jurisdiction.

There is a similar thing happening now on a smaller scale for Canadian companies that want to migrate off USA-based platforms for all sorts of SaaS and reasons.