Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will release its weights

Re:Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will... by harlan_pdx on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @07:31AM (#49447161)

Releasing weights is the right move. Keeps them competitive with DeepSeek on the open side.

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Re:Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will... by stanac on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @07:47AM (#49447346)

I had good experience with GLM 5.3, but...

Z.AI is the only provider for GLM 5.3 on OpenRouter. I don't see 5.3 on Hugging Face. Not sure if this new model is "full GLM" or something smaller, or if they will like Moonshot AI publish weights but put restrictive license [1], which will again leave Z.AI as single GLM model provider on OpenRouter.

[1] https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3/blob/main/LICENSE

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Re:Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will... by birdboy1 on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @07:54AM (#49447419)

GLM 5.3 weights are not yet released

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Re:Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will... by xienze on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @07:51AM (#49447394)

It's not released yet, just announced.

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Re:Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will... by jijji on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @09:44AM (#49449076)

The release date is supposed to be August 28th 2026

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Re:Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will... by cute_boi on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @10:09AM (#49449519)

I am happy if they publish under restrictive license. Developing model costs a tons of money and company need to make money somehow by still open sourcing project.

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