Cline announced that GLM-5.3 Flash, previously previewed as Ox Alpha, is free in Cline. The 320B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 18B active parameters is beating frontier models on benchmarks and has become Cline fastest-growing model, driving over 11% of all traffic in less than a week.

Key Takeaways

  • ✓GLM-5.3 Flash (formerly Ox Alpha) is now completely free inside Cline across CLI, VS Code, and JetBrains.
  • ✓The 320B MoE model activates ~18B parameters and matches or exceeds frontier models on code benchmarks.
  • ✓It is Cline fastest-growing model, driving over 11% of total platform traffic within one week.
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