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