Zhipu AI's GLM-5.3-Flash, previously an anonymous entity known as Ox Alpha, has achieved the highest global AI model call volume. This marks 18 consecutive weeks of Chinese models leading worldwide inference volume. The recent surge saw global AI model traffic reach 113 trillion tokens, a significant weekly increase.

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Zhipu AI, a Chinese artificial intelligence organisation, has launched its GLM-5.3-Flash frontier model, according to reports from Pandaily. This model operates entirely on domestically produced AI chips. It has gained attention across both benchmark and usage rankings, indicating a notable development in China's domestic compute capabilities. One hundred thousand locally made accelerators reportedly support all of its online inference traffic.