LaunchAI ModelsSeptember 8, 2026

Viral 'Ox Alpha' model revealed as Zai's GLM-5.3-Flash

The anonymous model that served 42 trillion tokens on OpenRouter in six days is Zai's GLM-5.3-Flash, a 320B-parameter hybrid with 18B active per token. It rivals Claude Opus 4.8 on coding benchmarks at roughly a tenth of the price, with GDPval AA v2 tasks costing $0.09.

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