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Anonymous model Ox Alpha counts tokens exactly like GLM
An anonymous model called Ox Alpha appeared on OpenRouter on 20 August with no stated owner. We ran two fingerprint tests on it. Both point at Z.ai's GLM family.
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LLMsFour flagships in three days: Grok 4.6, Gemini 3.7 Flash, DeepSeek V4 Pro and GLM-5.3. The cheap flat prices are ending with them: DeepSeek went peak and off-peak on 16 August, and Google's launch rate doubles in January.Image GenerationGPT Image 2 still leads the arena, but the margin is down to 45 points and the chaser is new: Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.6 sits second, with Nano Banana 2 down in seventh.Video GenerationThe video boards reshuffled in August: MiniMax-H3 leads image-to-video, FLUX 3 Video is a new second on text-to-video, and Sora 2's API switches off on 24 September.
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