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Fireship investigates Ox Alpha, an anonymous model that topped OpenRouter by serving 42 trillion tokens in six days…

…and reveals it as Zhipu's GLM-5.3-Flash. Viewers learn how this model delivers strong performance at roughly 40x lower cost than Claude, and what that means for AI economics and agentic workloads.

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Fireship investigates Ox Alpha, an anonymous model that topped OpenRouter by serving 42 trillion tokens in six days, and reveals it as Zhipu's GLM-5.3-Flash. Viewers learn how this model delivers strong performance at roughly 40x lower cost than Claude, and what that means for AI economics and agentic workloads.