SURPRISE: Z.AI IS THE AI LAB BEHIND THE MYSTERIOUS OX ALPHA MODEL

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Ox Alpha was created by Z.ai, which also made GLM. The company has confirmed that Ox Alpha is the newest iteration of its GLM series. It will open-source the weights so developers can build on top of it. Z.ai says Ox Alpha is a reasoning model designed for coding, sustained agentic work, and production workloads.