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Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is GLM-5.3-Flash, releases open-source weights

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Z.ai confirmed the Ox Alpha model is GLM-5.3-Flash, a multimodal vision model with a 1M token context window and DeepSWE ~63%. The company released the weights, claiming 10x cost efficiency over its predecessor.

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Timeline · 9 reports

  1. 2026-08-27 00:26 · SiliconANGLE AI
    Z.ai open-sources ‘Ox Alpha’ model as GLM-5.3-Flash
  2. 2026-08-26 15:17 · r/LocalLLaMA
    [Megathread] GLM-5.3-Flash - former ox-alpha
  3. 2026-08-26 14:37 · r/singularity
    GLM 5.3 Flash (Ox Alpha) benchmark comparisons
  4. 2026-08-26 14:26 · r/LocalLLM
    GLM-5.3-Flash (ox alpha) is released!
  5. 2026-08-26 14:24 · r/singularity
    Oh look its here. Ox Alpha = Glm 5.3 Flash
  6. 2026-08-26 14:23 · r/GeminiAI
    Ox Alpha is GLM
  7. 2026-08-26 11:14 · r/singularity
    Ox Alpha is GLM 5.3 Flash by zAI
  8. 2026-08-26 06:29 · r/LocalLLM
    First serious confirmation. Ox Alpha is GLM-5.3-Flash
  9. 2026-08-26 06:28 · r/LocalLLaMA
    First serious confirmation. Ox Alpha is GLM-5.3-Flash

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