A mysterious free model called Ox Alpha appeared on OpenRouter, crushed GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 on a coding benchmark, and forensic analysis now confirms it’s Zhipu AI’s GLM-5.3 running incognito.
Microsoft-owned GitHub adds Kimi K2.7 Code to Copilot model picker, marking the first open-weight model from a Chinese firm available on the platform. The move accelerates competition in AI coding assistants but introduces compliance considerations.
Cerebras launches Kimi K2.6, a trillion-parameter open-weight model hitting 981 tokens per second. It’s 6.7x faster than GPU cloud services and 23x faster than the median provider.