Z.ai confirms it's behind mysterious Ox Alpha model
Z.ai confirmed it is behind Ox Alpha, the anonymous open-weight model that topped coding benchmarks after launching on OpenRouter August 20. Weights release Wednesday; it's a reasoning model for coding and agentic work.
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