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Zhipu AI Unveils GLM-5.3-Flash, the Mystery Model Behind 'Ox Alpha'

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Zhipu AI Unveils GLM-5.3-Flash, the Mystery Model Behind 'Ox Alpha'

TL;DR

  • Zhipu AI's 'Ox Alpha' model is confirmed to be GLM-5.3-Flash.
  • GLM-5.3-Flash is a mixture-of-experts model with 320 billion total parameters, 18 billion active per inference.
  • It is optimized for coding, long agentic work, and a million-token context window.
  • The model is natively multimodal, accepting text, images, video, and files.
  • It features an architecture designed to reduce compute needs while maintaining capability.
  • GLM-5.3-Flash shows strong benchmark performance in code and agentic tasks.
  • Model weights are available on Hugging Face under the MIT license for local deployment.