Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will release its weights
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Z.AI confirmed Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series AI model and will release its weights.
China's Z.AI Co., known as Zhipu, confirmed that the Ox Alpha model is a new iteration of its GLM series and will release the model's weights. The model has rapidly gained popularity for high performance at zero cost, rivaling DeepSeek. Bloomberg News reported the confirmation on August 26, 2026.
What commenters are saying
Commenters confirmed the release is legitimate, noting Z.AI officially acknowledged it. Some questioned the model's size and capabilities, citing mixed benchmark results-one showing it below GPT-5.4 Nano, another suggesting it outperforms Fable. Others noted performance improvements during public testing, possibly due to new checkpoints. There was skepticism about distillation claims, with some arguing its Claude-like output could result from training on internet content rather than direct distillation.