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EPISODE · Aug 26, 2026 · 29 MIN

Mystery Model Weights Dropped: Opus 4.8 For Free

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The mystery model that topped OpenRouter's charts as "Ox Alpha" has been unmasked: it was z.ai's GLM 5.3 Flash all along, and the weights are now open. Nick and Jack break down why it's basically Opus 4.8 you can run at home, the 15-cent-per-million pricing that explains why it was free, and the new pre-training approach that lets it run on Chinese chips. Then: Apple's M5 Ultra Mac Studio with 512GB of unified memory, whether that's enough to run GLM 5.3 locally, how fast it would be, and whether local inference is finally worth it. Plus: Stacked is taking a sponsor and giving the money to viewers, a first look at Stacked Bench (draw Arnold in SVG), DeepSeek's peak pricing, DGX Spark, the Elon question, and the most insane people Nick and Jack have ever met. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1TD8QbFHC7g Step-by-step roadmap to $25K w/ AI: https://leftclicker.gumroad.com/l/110-steps Main channels: youtube.com/@nicksaraev & youtube.com/@Itssssss_Jack

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The mystery model that topped OpenRouter's charts as "Ox Alpha" has been unmasked: it was z.ai's GLM 5.3 Flash all along, and the weights are now open. Nick and Jack break down why it's basically Opus 4.8 you can run at home, the 15-cent-per-million pricing that explains why it was free, and the new pre-training approach that lets it run on Chinese chips. Then: Apple's M5 Ultra Mac Studio with 512GB of unified memory, whether that's enough to run GLM 5.3 locally, how fast it would be, and whe...

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