Axera AX8860: 128 GB at 40 W, Aimed at the DGX Spark

Axera announced the AX8860 with the same 128 GB LPDDR5X and 273 GB/s as the DGX Spark, at 40 W, with partners claiming it beats it on Qwen 27B. The arithmetic that says which half of that claim holds, and the state of the Pulsar2 and ax-llm software.

Ox Alpha Was GLM-5.3-Flash: Z.ai Ships MIT Weights After a 62-Trillion-Token Stealth Run

Ox Alpha has a name. Z.ai claimed the cloaked OpenRouter model on August 26 as GLM-5.3-Flash, a 320B-A18B natively multimodal mixture-of-experts model with MIT weights on Hugging Face, and says the entire anonymous preview ran on a cluster of Chinese AI chips. The viral 100 trillion tokens per day figure, though, was never a measurement.