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title: The mystery is solved... and the answer is 40x cheaper than Claude
link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-tzcMlQISk
source: youtube-com-fireship
published: 2026-09-01T17:31:27Z
updated: 2026-09-12T06:29:03Z
first_seen: 2026-09-19T21:30:23.395188495Z
authors:
- Fireship
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  Exa gives your agents the largest index of public and private data. Get $20 in credits - https://dashboard.exa.ai/billing?coupon=EXA20FIRESHIP

  An anonymous model called Ox Alpha just conquered OpenRouter, serving 42 trillion tokens in six days before being unmasked as Zhipu's GLM-5.3-Flash. Let's break it down.

  #coding #programming

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Exa gives your agents the largest index of public and private data. Get $20 in credits - https://dashboard.exa.ai/billing?coupon=EXA20FIRESHIP

An anonymous model called Ox Alpha just conquered OpenRouter, serving 42 trillion tokens in six days before being unmasked as Zhipu's GLM-5.3-Flash. Let's break it down.

#coding #programming

Want more Fireship?

🗞️ Newsletter: https://bytes.dev\
🧠 Courses: https://fireship.dev