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Official Z.ai benchmark chart for GLM-5.3-Flash, six grouped bar charts covering Terminal Bench 2.1, DeepSWE v1.1, Agents Last Exam, AutomationBench, HLE with tools and GDPVal-AA v2, comparing GLM-5.3-Flash against GLM-5.2, DeepSeek-V4-Vision-Exp, Claude Opus 4.8, GPT-5.6 Terra and Gemini 3.7 Flash.

We spent last week telling people not to send work code to Ox Alpha, because nobody would say who was running it. That question closed on 26 August: it was ...

Answer card: Ox Alpha appeared on OpenRouter on 20 August 2026 as stealth/ox-alpha with a 1,048,576 token context, 131,072 tokens of output, text image and video input, zero pricing during the preview, and terms stating that prompts and completions are retained by an anonymous provider and not used for training.

A free 1M context coding model appeared with no lab behind it

by stephane

3 September 2026

You open the OpenRouter model list, sort by price, and there it is at the top: ox-alpha, a million tokens of context, zero dollars in and zero dollars out. Free ...

Answer card summarising the Nvidia and Poolside deal reported on 21 August 2026: a 6 billion dollar non-exclusive licence to Model Factory, job offers to 109 staff who built Laguna, and a separate 1 billion dollar investment at a 12 billion dollar pre-money valuation.

Nvidia paid $6B for a non-exclusive Poolside licence

by stephane

3 September 2026

Friday afternoon, and the news arrives the way these things do now, through somebody's letter to their investors rather than a press release. Nvidia is paying Poolside $6 billion for ...

Z.ai official benchmark chart for GLM-5.3, six grouped bar charts comparing GLM-5.3, GLM-5.2, Kimi K3, Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on Terminal Bench 3.0, DeepSWE, Agents Last Exam, AutomationBench, HLE with Tools and GDPval-AA v2.

GLM-5.3: open weights in two weeks, breaking API change now

by stephane

14 August 2026

Z.ai put a Hugging Face button on its own GLM-5.3 announcement page, and the button says Coming Soon. That is the launch in one image: the model went live on ...

Poolside announcement graphic for Laguna S 2.1, purple isometric cubes descending across a grid on a cream background, with the words Introducing Laguna S 2.1 in black.

Laguna S 2.1: 118B open weights on one DGX Spark

by stephane

28 July 2026

Somebody forwards you the headline: an open model that beats rivals ten times its size. Then you open Poolside's own benchmark table and Kimi K3 is sitting there at 88.3 ...

Cursor bar chart titled Cost to rebuild SQLite by model mix, showing six stacked planner and worker bars from $1,339 for Opus 4.8 with Composer 2.5 up to $20,057 for Fable 5 alone, with a footnote marking the starred runs as informal.

Cursor agent swarm: SQLite for $1,339 and the 15x catch

by stephane

26 July 2026

Somebody sent you the chart, probably. A swarm of agents wrote SQLite in Rust from nothing but the manual, and the bill came to $1,339. That part is real: Cursor ...