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The Cow Comes Home: China's Internet Celebrates Z.ai Claiming Ownership of Ox Alpha
Chinese fans rejoiced at Z.ai claiming ownership of Ox Alpha, lauding the startup's new model and its use of domestic AI chips.
TL;DR
- Z.ai's GLM-5.3-Flash model was disguised as Ox Alpha.
- Chinese users on Weibo celebrated Z.ai's claim of ownership of Ox Alpha.
- Praise focused on the model's strong performance, low cost, and the use of domestically produced chips.
- Stripe CEO Patrick Collison described the model as 'very impressive'.
- The model was humorously nicknamed 'Niu Lai' by Weibo users.
- GLM-5.3-Flash is part of a trend of recent Chinese AI models gaining traction globally, like Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 and Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next.