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Dev · bloomberg.com · Wednesday, 26 August 2026

Z.ai fesses up: stealth Ox Alpha is a GLM-series model, weights coming tonight

The anonymous coding model that shot to the top of OpenRouter with a 1M-token window and zero cost has finally owned up. Z. AI (Zhipu) confirmed to Bloomberg that Ox Alpha is the next GLM-series iteration and will release its weights tonight. For developers, that means the benchmark-crushing model becomes fully open and self-hostable, not just free behind an API.

Read the source: bloomberg.com ↗In the 26 August issue →