Ox Alpha: Neues KI-Modell aus China soll Programmieren billiger machen
Das zunächst anonym veröffentlichte KI-Modell Ox Alpha hat innerhalb weniger Tage viele chinesische Nutzer gefunden. Nun verrät der Entwickler, wie er das Modell weiterentwickeln will.
China's AI firm Z.AI has confirmed it is behind the new model Ox Alpha, which has taken the top spot on user charts over the weekend. As a result, the company's shares briefly surged by up to 8.6 percent on the market. Z.AI, also known as Zhipu, intends to charge $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens for using the GLM-5.3-Flash model.
Tokens are units for processing artificial intelligence. This pricing puts Z.AI in competition with Deepseek, offering affordable and efficient models. Companies like Anthropic are increasingly facing pressure from the cheaper offerings of firms like Z.AI. Ox Alpha was first posted on OpenRouter without any affiliation to a company, marking the largest launch of a model on the platform in its history.
The model's interest from observers and users spiked rapidly. As a reasoning model, Ox Alpha is tailored for programming and agent-based tasks, capable of processing texts, images, and videos. Patrick Collison, CEO of payment provider Stripe, who aims to acquire OpenRouter, described the stealth mode release as "very impressive."
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