WHAT Z.AI'S OX ALPHA REVEALS ABOUT AI ECONOMICS

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GLM-5.3-Flash is Z.ai's first natively multimodal model in the GLM-5 series. The model was released anonymously as Ox Alpha on OpenCode and OpenRouter, where it completely overtook leaderboards and went viral. All of the traffic was served on Chinese AI chips. The model is architected for extreme efficiency and specifically designed for ultra-low-cost inference.