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• @openrouterai @openrouterai on x

  🥷 We're launching a new stealth model on OpenRouter: Pony Alpha. - Pony Alpha is a next-generation foundation model - It delivers strong performance across coding, reasoning, and roleplay - It's optimized for agentic workflows, with high tool-calling accuracy [image]

• @htihle Håvard Ihle on x

  Claude opus 4.6 (adaptive) takes the lead on WeirdML with 77.9% ahead of gpt-5.2 (xhigh) at 72.2%. It sets a new high score on 3 tasks including scoring 73% on the hardest task (digits_generalize) up from 59%. Opus 4.6 is extremely token hungry and uses an average of 32k [image]

• @scaling01 @scaling01 on x

  GLM-5 is massive. 745B params. LETS FUCKING GOOOOO This should be fun! [image]

• @eliebakouch Elie on x

  GLM 5 is 2x the total parameter of GLM 4.5 + deepseek sparse attention for efficient long context this is going to be a crazy model [image]

• @joshraddev @joshraddev on x

  Ok so Pony Alpha is def a Chinese model [image]

• @i_jaihundal Jai Hundal on x

  For anyone who is wondering, Pony Alpha is GLM-5, 100% sure. How? Go to settings in the Chats menu in openrouter, change the, Change the system prompt from “default” to “custom” and leave it blank. And then ask what model are you. Enjoy! [image]

• @htihle Håvard Ihle on x

  The gap that chinese open models (deepseek v4, glm-5 and qwen-3.5) need to cross to reach the frontier seems to be growing fast! It will be very interesting to see how the next generation shapes up (rumors say they may show up soon), and how this gap will evolve in time. [image]

• @aibattle_ @aibattle_ on x

  GLM-5 has been spotted on Github The next 2 weeks are going to be great [image]

• @local0ptimist Kenneth on x

  woah. so i've been testing pony alpha with behavioral methods and had opus draft up our report and uhhh it's basically passing Pangram's detection system on its own?? [image]

• @aryass767 @aryass767 on x

  “Pony-Alpha” on Openrouter answered the forbidden question for Chinese models , hence the new model is most likely not GLM 5. [image]

• r/LocalLLaMA r on reddit

  New stealth model: Pony Alpha

• r/SillyTavernAI r on reddit

  Pony Alpha is GOOD  —  Sorry this is just going to be a slop post with me gushing about the model.  —  Since everyone is 90% sure Pony is GLM, I have to say I am very happy with it.

• r/ZaiGLM r on reddit

  Z.ai is testing GLM-5 in openrouter as Pony Alpha (it's insanely good)

• @sidelined_cap @sidelined_cap on x

  Today marks a historic milestone in AI development: a tech company has now weaponized AI to incite a crowd event and DDoS-attack a bubble tea store. Alibaba is currently running a promotional campaign in China: users who engage in conversations with its AI chatbot Qwen can [image…

• @linxule @linxule on x

  The ones seem to follow OpenAI-adjacent playbook (actually I would say what you might expect from OpenAI down the line) that target engagement and installation numbers Qwen - free milk tea Yuanbao (tencent) - red envelopes (which, also gets to be spent on milk tea) Alas, [image]

• @yicaichina @yicaichina on x

  Alibaba's Qwen app today kicked off its CNY3 billion (USD420 million) Chinese New Year campaign, handing out free milk tea vouchers, briefly triggering minor system glitches in some regions. The AI app topped Apple's App Store free app chart at noon, followed by Tencent's Yuanbao…