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Z.ai Says All of Ox Alpha's Stealth Traffic Ran on Chinese Domestic AI Chips, and That Line Got More Upvotes Than the Benchmarks
The third paragraph of the GLM-5.3-Flash release blog states the model was tested anonymously as ox-alpha and became the most popular model of the week 'with all of this traffic served on Chinese AI chips.' The r/LocalLLaMA comment quoting that sentence pulled 547 upvotes, more than any benchmark comment in the thread, and the top reply (372 upvotes) reads it as the inference compute moat closing. Practitioners had spent the prior week arguing ox-alpha could not be Chinese precisely because it had too much serving capacity.
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