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

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Post by mschuster91 » Wed, Aug 26, 2026, 8:40 PM UTC

seydor wrote: post #27

Funny how all china companies are expected to release weights by default

Well, China is at their usual barely legal (at least if the WTO would be worth even a bit after it got thoroughly gutted) game, just burning their effectively infinite cash reserves to undercut Western providers and eventually force them out of business.

In the end there's barely any moat that any of the ludicrously "valued" AI companies have - the only thing justifying the valuations of SpaceX/xAI/Tesla/Anthropic/OpenAI is a supposed "secret sauce" that, frankly, barely exists any more.

Everyone and their dog can go and run LLMs for dirt cheap on their own hardware.

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

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Post by akshay_akula » Wed, Aug 26, 2026, 8:51 PM UTC

Reads like the usual pattern, somewhere between Sonnet and Opus but not something you leave unattended. Curious if the weights release changes that.

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

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Post by colesantiago » Wed, Aug 26, 2026, 8:55 PM UTC

Alifatisk wrote: post #144

colesantiago wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is called phishing and grifting. Many people and even software engineers fall for this all the time. Most of these people are from crypto pivoting to AI doing this. AI has made this easier and cheaper and it is going to get a LOT worse. Imagine lots of websites with typosquatting and looking exactly the same as another website, vibe coded and cloned within seconds. The public have no chance.

What is there to phish? These are simple vibe coded websites providing information for a certain topic, nothing else. In this case, that 2nd url is a website with information regarding the new model as well as a broken chat interface to try out.

You do realise there are hundreds of these types of 'sites'.

This one that is listed is designed to rank on Google as an informational source (although unofficial and not from z.ai which is why I said it is phishing)

Assuming you are technical you are able to discern this, imagine the average person.

No chance.