not much happened today

**Ox Alpha** emerged as a mystery model with strong coding and agentic performance, likely a **Zhipu/GLM-family** model such as **GLM-5.3 Vision**. Analysts suggest its gains come from post-training and infrastructure improvements rather than sheer size, based on the **743B base** of **GLM-5.2** with enhancements like **SAO** for long-horizon tasks. **DeepSeek** released **DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp**, adding multimodal support and mixed text+image API capabilities, with performance near **Opus-4.8**. Chinese AI labs are advancing on price/performance and multimodal agents, pressuring US labs. **OpenAI** cut **GPT-5.6 Sol** pricing by over 20% for three months and reported explosive **Codex** usage hitting 20M active users, while adding better spend controls for API usage.