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Ox-Alpha Is GLM? (dejan.ai)
gvkhna 12 minutes ago [-]
If it’s not zhipu then why is it returning errors that zhipu does for other models? Who else would return the exact same errors even if they took a lot of core infra like tokenizer from z?
mogili 12 minutes ago [-]
It's not a good model tbh, got a bunch of things wrong that Opus corrected in my codebase.
petesergeant 3 minutes ago [-]
Yet to find a model that cross-model review doesn’t find a bunch of things wrong with. I’m running simultaneous review with whichever of Grok4.6/GLM5.3/Fable/Sol didn’t write it, and each model tends to find items the others didn’t.
jerrythegerbil 13 minutes ago [-]
As someone who uses NCD nearly every day, I have concerns about how it’s been used here.

But while we’re “guessing”: Xiaomi MiMO

volf_ 11 hours ago [-]
GLM 5.3 and all previous models don't have a vision encoder and can only accept text. Ox-Alpha can accept video and images, so unless Z-ai added a pretty good vision encoder for this model, I don't think so.

My money is on Moonshot and this being Kimi K3.5. The measured tps and latency is in-line with K3's tps and latency from Moonshot.

MiniMax M3.5 is also possible (but the MiniiMax provider is a lot more performant than the lab behind ox-alpha, so less likely).

minimaxir 1 hours ago [-]
The other tell from the provider angle is capacity. Whoever is hosting Ox Alpha has a lot of capacity which narrows down a lot of the Chinese companies.
nylonstrung 10 hours ago [-]
It would be stranger to me that Kimi switched to GLM's tokenizer than that GLM added multimodal like Kimi and Deepseek both did recently
Bolwin 11 hours ago [-]
Glm had made vision models in the past. Look up GLM 5v.

The only question now is if it's 5.3v, 5.4/5.5 or a dedicated flash/vision model

BoredomIsFun 11 minutes ago [-]
GLM made pretty decent for that time small 9b vision model, GLM-4.1.
volf_ 11 hours ago [-]
Yeah. It could be. The Z.ai DC latency is still ~1.2s faster than whomever is serving this model.
Almondsetat 11 hours ago [-]
DeepSeek literally just came out with the vision-enabled version of Flash v4 which was purely text based. Why would GLM not be able to do the same thing?
volf_ 11 hours ago [-]
It's possible
xorgun 43 minutes ago [-]
Dont rule out ssi
nullbio 13 minutes ago [-]
That would be insanely disappointing.
ChrisArchitect 11 hours ago [-]
behnamoh 37 minutes ago [-]
You must have so much time on your hands to go to such great length to dox an anon model on the internet. What new piece of information am I supposed to learn from this passage?
minimaxir 36 minutes ago [-]
You cannot "dox" an AI model.

Given the traction the model has received, it is extremely newsworthy to know who's developing and hosting it.

behnamoh 34 minutes ago [-]
my question is: how does that affect a company's strategy? it's not like management is gonna switch models soon as a new shiny one drops. entire workflows depend on specific models working the way they do; you can't just swap out models.
minimaxir 32 minutes ago [-]
If it's a really really good model, then yes, people will switch as long as the price is right. Ox Alpha is looking to be a really really good model to the point that it competes with Fable/Sol, and will likely beat them on price.
volf_ 9 minutes ago [-]
same business model as crack. best way to get people hooked is to make the first hits free.
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