Cancel Your Claude & ChatGPT Subscription! Ox-Alpha Is HERE! (GLM-5.3 Flash)
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The video introduces Ox-Alpha, a newly released free AI model hosted on Z.AI that is being compared directly against premium paid models like ChatGPT's GPT-4o and Claude's Opus 5. The creator aims to determine if the hype surrounding this free tool is justified by putting it through a real-world test: building a professional landing page for a photographer. To make the process accessible to everyone, the demonstration avoids complex terminal setups or coding, instead focusing on a direct web interface comparison. The goal is to evaluate whether Ox-Alpha can deliver results that rival flagship models without costing users anything, effectively testing if it is a genuine utility or just another instance of AI hype.
The comparison begins with a detailed prompt designed to generate a complete portfolio website, including image analysis, pricing structures, and contact information. In terms of speed, Claude Opus 5 emerges as the clear winner, finishing its task first despite the creator using a high-tier paid version rather than the most expensive model available. ChatGPT encounters some initial connectivity issues but eventually completes the task with a layout that the creator finds superior to Claude's in several aspects, particularly in how it analyzes and titles images based on their content. Meanwhile, Ox-Alpha takes longer to generate its output but ultimately produces a result that blends the strengths of its competitors, offering a clean layout similar to ChatGPT while incorporating better image proportioning reminiscent of Claude's approach.
Upon reviewing the final outputs, distinct strengths and weaknesses become apparent for each model. Claude provides a well-proportioned design but struggles with logical consistency, sometimes misidentifying images or leaving awkward empty spaces in the text sections. ChatGPT excels at analyzing visual content to generate accurate captions but suffers from poor layout management, featuring oversized images that break mobile responsiveness and missing advanced features like before-and-after color grading demonstrations. Ox-Alpha, while not quite reaching the peak performance of the paid giants, impressively handles intricate tasks for free; however, it does exhibit minor logical errors, such as mismatched alt text and confusing UI elements like non-functional red circles, which are easily fixable by a human user.
The creator concludes that while Ox-Alpha is not yet on par with the sophisticated capabilities of Claude Opus 5 or ChatGPT's latest models, it represents an incredible value proposition for users seeking free AI tools. The model successfully builds functional and aesthetically pleasing websites that can serve as solid starting points, though it may lack the robustness required for complex backend integrations like payment processors or game development without further refinement. Ultimately, the video suggests that Ox-Alpha is a highly capable alternative for basic to intermediate web creation tasks, proving that high-quality AI assistance is accessible without a subscription, provided users are willing to make minor adjustments to correct its occasional logical slips.
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A free AI model just showed up and
people are already putting it on the
same level as Chachi BT's Soul 5.6 and
even Claude's Fable 5. Now, this one's
called Ox Alpha. And the big question is
whether it can actually deliver similar
results without costing you anything or
whether the hype has gone too far. Now,
we're switching things up. Most videos
show you how to set it up through a
terminal, which can get pretty
complicated pretty fast, but I'm doing
things a little bit differently. So,
really, anyone can open it up and follow
along. So, we're going to give it a real
world task and compare its output, its
speed, and the final results against the
AI tools that you already know and use.
And by the end, you'll see exactly where
OX Alpha shines, where it falls short,
and whether this free model can
genuinely build something useful or if
it's all just pure AI hype. Now, for
this, we're going to go ahead and keep
everything extremely simple, simpler
than anybody else has showed you. So,
what we're going to be doing is we're
going to be logging in directly to Z.AI
where OX Alpha or GLM 5.3 Flash is being
hosted. That way, we don't have to set
up any complicated terminals. We don't
have to do any complicated coding. We're
just going to get straight into the
action and we're going to compare what
GLM 5.3 Flash gives us against ChatGBT's
5.6 Soul and Claude's Opus 5. So, we're
just going to go ahead and get started
and we're going to create a simple page
for let's say a photographer. We're
going to do a landing page for a
photographer. So, the first thing that
you need to do is run over to Z.ai and
simply just log in. Once you log in,
your default model up here is going to
be 5.3 Flash. Now, we do have another
more intricate model or more advanced
model, which would be the 5.3, but we're
going to stick to 5.3 Flash because this
is the one that's using the less amount
of tokens, the less amount of credits,
and you can use practically for free,
and it's supposed to be side by side in
terms of output with Opus 5 and Soul
5.6. So, we're going to be the judge of
that in just a few minutes once
everything is done. Now, before we do
get started with our prompting, let's
see a few of the different things that I
can do. So, it can create landing pages.
It can do teaching material, 3D
modeling, miniames, and personal blogs.
And this is all with a lightweight 5.3
flash version that we're not going to be
paying anything for. So, let's just do
this as a quick preview. Let's see what
it made or what it can make. So, here it
gives the example prompt. And here it
actually comes up with the website. So,
this looks pretty good. Now, this does
look I don't want to say it looks
generic because it does look pretty
good, especially with the background
image and the way that it's
transitioning. does have a couple of
errors, but overall it actually looks
fairly well. It doesn't look like, I
guess, AI slop, right? The typography on
here is pretty nice. It's not that copy
and paste font that pretty much
everybody or every large language model
is using. And it's got some decent
little animations. It has this scrolling
over and it has the different
transitions as you're going through the
page itself. And you have your little
book free trial. That's pretty cool. So,
when you hover over it, it actually has
an animation. Okay, so this looks pretty
good, especially for a model that's
supposed to pretty much rival flagship
models like Chachi BT and Claude's
Fable, Opus, and Soul. Okay, so what I'm
going to do is I'm going to go ahead and
paste in a prompt that I have here. Now,
this is a pretty big and detailed
prompt. You can make it a lot simpler,
but I want to see how robust it can make
things and really how good it compares
against the other two models. Now, if
you do want this prompt, just wait a
little bit longer. I'm going to give you
a master prompt cheat sheet with all the
different links that I'm showing you in
this video along with this prompt and
anything else that I'll be using. So,
stick around for that. Now, what I'm
going to be doing here is I'm just going
to go ahead and paste it in. Again, this
is a very long and robust prompt. If you
don't want to wait for me to send you
the link to the cheat sheet, then
something else that you can do is either
go to Chad GBT or go to Claude and
simply tell it what you want. Tell it
the type of website that you're making
and tell it that you need a prompt that
you can paste on whatever app you're
using or whatever AI that you're using.
That way you can get a strong prompt,
something that's a lot more detailed
than what you would typically come up
with. So that way you can really start
making these on your own. So I'm going
to go ahead and put it on here. And just
so you know, this is currently set to
max and deep thinking. So you know what
we're actually going to do is we're
going to set all three different ones
together. Now, we're not going to have
too much space, but we are going to be
able to see all of them working. All
right, perfect. So, I have it pasted
here. I'm going to go ahead and paste it
in claude. And I'm going to go ahead and
paste it in chat GBT. So, let's just go
ahead and do enter, enter, and enter.
And now, let's just give it a couple
minutes and see what it comes up with or
what they all come up with. Okay, so it
looks like we have our first winner,
which is Claude. Claude went ahead and
finished up the design plan, and it's
currently laying everything out for us.
So, let's just go ahead and give it a
few minutes. Catch unfortunately, had an
error. So, I'm just going to go ahead
and try it out on a different browser
really fast and just let it do its
thing. Now, if we look at Claude, it's
currently writing all of the code for
the website that we asked it to make.
So, it looks like right now the winner
is going to be Claude in terms of speed
and we are using Opus 5 High. We're not
using Fable 5 because realistically
Fable is extremely expensive and not all
of us are going to be using Fable just
for a simple website. Even then, Opus 5
is still kind of overkill for something
like this, but it should do a way better
job and a lot faster job than any of the
other models. So, Opus 5 is good to get
started. Fable 5, we really don't need
that much power just yet. All right, so
I'm going to let them all continue
working. Let's just give it a few more
minutes.
>> A few moments later.
>> Okay, so it's probably been I want to
say 15 20 minutes and Claude finished
first. Now, Claude did just give me code
at the beginning. So, I asked it to make
it into a file that I can actually open
into an HTML file, and it went ahead and
did that. Now, unfortunately, Chad GBT
has been down for the majority of the
day. I just found that out, but it seems
to still be working now when I ran it
locally on my desktop app, but don't
worry, it's still using the exact same
parameters. So, it's using 5.6 on extra
high. Now, Chadbt is currently working.
GLM 5.3 Flash is also still thinking.
It's been quite a bit. I haven't seen it
do anything else. Let's just keep giving
it a little bit more, but let's see what
Claude actually came up with. So, this
is what Claude generated. Let's go ahead
and refresh it. And this is supposed to
be a portfolio for a photographer. And
it was supposed to receive or it was
supposed to get all the images from a
website called Pixels. Now, for those of
you who don't know, Pixels is a
completely free website that gives you
stock images that you can use. Now,
looking through this, it's actually
really nice. So the text itself is kind
of the generic text that most AI
websites get. But besides that,
everything else actually looks pretty
clear. So here we have a couple of
examples. We have here a drop down. Oh,
that's pretty interesting. On drop down
a where you can click and it'll take you
to that section of the website. So
that's pretty nice. The animation as it
scrolls down is really good, too. But
let's see. So we have a working sheet,
14 frames, 4 years. I don't know about
that, but I mean that's fine. And we can
go ahead and change anything if we
choose to. The face over here is cut
off, but everything else looks fairly
good. It does need a little bit of extra
love in terms of, you know, the layout
and how everything is kind of
positioned. So, here you can see that
she's cut off in the middle. Here, her
head is cut off. And this one's all
right. Scroll through. We have different
sizes. I don't think that this should be
completely different sizes on the same
section. There should be something down
here just filling in that extra space,
even if it's just a little bit of text
or something like that. There's also a
lot of images in just this one clutter.
So, it's not horrible, but it could be
formed a little bit better. Now, if we
switch over to the different tabs. So,
if we do portraits, it only shows the
portraits. We have one here that doesn't
seem to be loading. And then if we
switch it over to weddings, it brings up
the weddings. These are definitely not
weddings at all. It's just this one. And
then travel. So, these look all right.
Well, not these. This one's really the
only one that looks like it would be
travel. But that's okay because again,
Cloud is kind of just assuming all these
different things. It takes the images
and it analyzes them and it thinks that
this is where they could go. Or when it
looks up certain images or certain
search phrases on Pixels and Pixels
gives it these results, that's what it's
going to assume that they are. So, I see
where it's coming from. I see why it
made this decision. Of course, AI is not
the end all be all. It's always going to
need some sort of input from us. And
something like this is definitely where
we would come in and tell it, look, this
doesn't work. These images are not
relevant. These are different sizes. And
then we start to fix everything from
there. But if we keep scrolling, we have
our understudies here. So it has a bit
of information on the photographer
themselves. So it looks like our madeup
photographer is from Mexico City. And
here's a little bit of about me. I
started this in a corridor at thero de
laudad waiting for a magazine portrait
that kept getting pushed back. That's
pretty interesting the way that it comes
up with a bio. And then if we scroll
through, we have a few more images here.
We can't really click on anything. Now,
let's scroll down a little bit. This
part right here is actually very, very
impressive. So, what I do to a file and
what I don't. People ask what happens
after the shutter. Not much. I set the
black point, lift the face a third of a
stop, and leave the room the color it
actually was. Drag the handle to see the
flat scan on the left and the finished
print on the right. So, here, this is
really cool. It actually color graded
this image, and it did really well. So,
it made it from something that's very
low saturation, not a lot of color to
something that actually pops. So, this
is actually a very nice touch. Now,
scrolling down again, we have more
information on the photographer
themselves. Her name is Marasol, and
she's been doing this since 2011. Here
we have Marasol in the Huarez room.
Clearly, that is not the right image,
but again, this is all just completely
made up. We would have to make a few
adjustments on our end. We're just
trying to see how this actually just
overall looks and feels. Now, we keep
going down. This is pretty interesting.
We have a pricing list. So Claude came
up with different pricing for different
types of shoots. So the editorial
portrait sitting is $2,200 for half a
day. Weddings available light. So I
guess bringing in a light source 6,800.
By the way, I used to be a photographer,
so I kind of know some of the different
things that it's going for here. And
documentary and travel commissions 1,900
per day. And prints 180 each. Then we
have what people have said afterwards.
So we have a bit of a review. This right
here does have a lot of empty space.
This would be something that needs to be
filled in either with let's say example
images or simply just take the reviews
and line them up side by side. But
keeping going, we have tell me a contact
us form. So tell me about it. And we
have our different links down here. Now,
unfortunately, none of these work, but
again, that is to be expected. And of
course, this file is not online. This is
an actual website. This is something
that's running locally on our machine.
And if we do want to put this up online,
we're going to have to find a hosting
software somewhere else. Now, let's see
where the other two are at. So, it looks
like ChachiBT is still doing its thing.
Again, perfectly fine. It errored out
the first time on the web version, so I
had to switch it over. But, let's see
what GLM Flash is coming up with. Now,
it doesn't look like it's fully done
yet. It is finishing up. It looks like
it's done quite a bit of work. This
actually looks a lot longer and a lot
more detailed than the one that Claude
had sent me. So, let's go ahead and give
it a few more minutes. Let it finish up
and we will be right back. Now, I did
promise you how you can gain access to
the prompting cheat sheet. And if you
want access to that, just drop a comment
down below letting me know if GLM5.3 is
something that you're actually going to
use and let me know your thoughts on it
along with the # oxalpha. And when I see
that you went ahead and did that, I'll
reply back with a link to the sheet. All
right, let's continue. Okay, so chatbt
finished up and this is what it gave us.
And I actually think that this is much
better than what Claude gave us. These
are all going to be very similar, but
they are going to have a couple of
structural changes depending on how
creative the AI models got. Now, for
Chad GBT's Soul 5.6, this is what it
gave us. And so far, the actual layout
looks really good. Let's do a quick
refresh. You can see everything kind of
just fades in. Let's check out the text
over here. So, stay for what happens
next. I do like this font. It's not
very, I guess, AIish. It doesn't look
like those flyers that you see generated
everywhere. Now we have editorial
portraits, road stories and weddings
made in the light that was already
there. Now I photographed the half
second after the pose, the laugh that
breaks it, the why they're moving in,
the hand reaching across the table.
That's pretty interesting. I kind of
like that. See the recent edit. See if
this works. All right, so it brings us
down. Let's see everything up here. Our
about Okay, so everything takes you to
different sections of the page itself.
So the transitions looked really nice.
Let's do a refresh one more time so we
can see all of the transitions as we're
going down. Now, if we start to scroll
down, we have a working contact sheet.
Portraits begin with conversation.
Travel work begins by walking. Wedding
asks for both attention without
interruption. I'm not a huge fan of the
copy. I feel like it's too short and
it's trying to do too much with too
little. I think something that would
just be a bit simpler in terms of the
text would be better. But overall, it's
got a nice feel to it. Now, they all
used the exact same images. And then if
we scroll through, we have Andre between
takes. Okay, that's pretty cool. So, it
actually knew what this was. It was a
person and it labeled it as Andre
between different takes. Okay, that
looks good. Riverbend before the trail
opened. Also really good. This is
something that Claude didn't do. It
didn't actually analyze the images to
see what was in the images. Now, if we
keep scrolling, we have Mina waiting by
the window. Okay, so this was good, but
she's not by a window. She's actually
outside. And then we have the sky kept
moving after midnight. Loen. Now, again,
everything's looking good so far. or we
can click into these and they zoom in or
they expand. We have a bit more
information here. So this is in Norway
in 2024 and we can click on next to see
the other images. So that's pretty cool.
It actually opens up a gallery when you
click into them. Now the only thing that
I'm not feeling right now is the actual
size of these images. They're really
big. But if you scroll down, we have a
few more. They're not properly aligned.
They don't always have to be aligned.
Sometimes a little bit of misalignment.
Something's a little bit higher. Some a
little bit bigger. a little bit smaller.
It does look good, but the way that it's
doing it here, it's not really working
in my opinion. But let's check out the
rest of the text here. So, Camille at
the end of the workday, the dress, and
Dr. Nia Brooks after the interview. This
is really good. ChachiT is actually
analyzing all of these images, and it's
making a real guess as to what they
could be or it's giving them the right
type of title. Now, let's continue. So,
we have more images. You see, like right
here, this one's huge. just could have
been a lot smaller and there could have
been some extra space here. This really
wouldn't be very mobile friendly. And on
this one, there's just too much empty
space. The image is way too big. Now, we
have the weather between towns. I really
like how this is transitioning. It keeps
the text over here while it just simply
moves the images. So, this looks good.
Again, little bit of extra space, but
that's fine. Now, this is Laya. I'm
Laya. I notice the edges. So, it's
supposed to be our photographer. Now,
this was the same image that was used up
here in the breakroom, and her name here
was Sora. So, it doesn't really make
sense there. It doesn't coincide, but
fine, I get it. Again, we're using stock
images. We're not giving it an actual
photographers's profile or their real
work. So, it gives us here a about us
for her or about me. Then, we have the
clear plans, room to wander. We have
their pricing. So, the editorial
portraits, the wedding stories, small
gatherings, and we have the different
pricing over here. Scroll down. We have
what it felt like. Cool. So, this is a
review section. It looks good. I just
feel like again, it's just the text is
way too big. And you don't really know
that this is a review section. You
really actually have to read everything
through here to know what it is. And
then we have the contact us form. So, so
far it's actually not a bad layout. The
layout itself to me is a lot cleaner.
It's probably a little bit smoother than
what we saw with Claude. But now, GLM
5.3 just finished and let's see what
that came up with. Okay, so right off
the bat, everything kind of just faded
in. Looks pretty good. I like how this
is a little bit crooked. It gives it a
little bit of character. The text
itself, the font doesn't look too bad.
It kind of reminds me more of the Chachi
BT one. Same thing for the text down
here. So, I don't carry lights. I wait
for the window. This is actually pretty
cool. So, this makes it a lot clearer
that this photographer doesn't use
flash. They use natural light, which is
a good way to be able to put it. Now, we
can go ahead and see the work or book a
session. If we book a session, it takes
us all the way to the bottom. Okay,
let's do another quick refresh and let's
see how everything scrolls through. So,
selected work, three bodies of work live
here and shows all of the different
images that they did again with no
flash. Now, one thing that I'm kind of
iffy about actually that's really nice
when you switch through the tabs, the
way that they move. But one thing I
don't like or really don't understand is
this little red circle. Maybe it's
supposed to highlight our images. I'm
not entirely sure. But this doesn't
really work for me. This doesn't do
anything. I would take that off
completely. Now, if you look at the
text, right, so this one is Tomas before
his shift. Okay, cool. This one is first
dance window. The context here isn't
really working. There's no dancing and
there's no windows. There is this arc
over here, but it doesn't really go with
what GLM is trying to say here. Then we
have the last swimmers. There's nobody
really swimming here, but at least it is
a river. We have confetti borrowed
garden steam and neon square. Donna
Alice in the good chair. Okay, so the
text itself is not really relevant to
the image itself. So what Ox Alpha chose
or what it analyzed these images to be,
it was wrong and pretty much on all of
them. So that's before the fleet off the
wall at 5. That's not really working.
Now if we scroll through, we have the
sitting room. So we have information on
our photographer. Yeah. So since 2018,
I've been photographing people in the
rooms they actually live in. Okay. The
cost of twins. There's no twins. There's
only one person. Here we have a broken
image with a little animation. Same
thing here. And then here we have the
before and after. So this is also
another really good thing. This is
something that Chacheti didn't do. It
didn't give us the before and after. And
I really like this because it shows how
somebody can take a basic portrait or a
basic picture and just make it a lot
more vivid, a lot more live. So this
little bar here I think was missing from
ChachiBT. I think this is absolutely
necessary. Once I saw it, I thought this
is a great idea. But then if we keep
going through, we have some more
information on our photographer, their
rates like in the other ones. Now,
interestingly enough, this is actually
in euros. So, I'm not entirely sure why
GLM decided to go with euros rather than
dollars, but it's fine. It is what it
is. Okay, this is actually nice. So,
this was labeled now client words and it
gave us the reviews. So, this actually
makes it a lot more obvious that these
are reviews. Then, if we scroll through,
we have the tell me about the light.
This is our contact us with the contact
us information. So overall, I think
everything came out pretty good on this
part on GLM 5.3. Now, if I had to score
all three of them, which ones were the
best, which one was the worst? This is
my final verdict. So, in terms of the
total layout, I do like the color scheme
that Claude chose, and the layout is
pretty similar to all of the other ones.
Now, Claude did fill up the images a
little bit better than some of the other
ones did. It didn't make them huge and
overbearing. It did miss a few spaces in
terms of text. that has a lot of empty
spaces, but the images themselves are
correctly proportioned. Everything is
the right size and it's not overbearing.
Now, Chachi BT chose a very nice color
scheme and the overall look and feel of
the website is good. It actually
analyzed all of the images and it told
us what they are all about. It did have
a couple of errors here and there, just
like this one saying that she's waiting
by the window when she's actually
outside. But everything else is pretty
on point like this one like we mentioned
earlier Camille at the end of the
workday over in Queens. ChachiBT did
however miss one very important part to
the whole website and that was the
before and after with the color grading.
I think that would have been a very nice
touch to this. Another thing about
Chacht's output is that the images are
huge. Like they're way too big. Every
single image on here needs to be resized
and everything kind of just needs to be
compacted a little bit better. But
overall, the look and feel of the
website, it looks pretty good. The font
and the text is all pretty on point. It
doesn't look too generic, and it doesn't
look very AIish. Now, keep in mind,
these two models that I just showed you,
we're paying for both of these models.
Now, if we open up the one that Ox Alpha
made for us, this one is pretty similar
in terms of the color scheme to Chad
GBT. And as far as the layout, it got
everything kind of similar to Claude.
So, I feel like this is a nice little
mix of both of them. And it's very
impressive because this is the
completely free version. It did take a
little bit longer than the other two,
but it did a pretty good job for
something that's totally free that you
can just sign up for right now and get
done. Yes, there are a few things that
we need to fix. A few things that really
don't make sense. Like I mentioned
earlier, these little red circles, they
don't really work. They shouldn't be
there. I don't understand it. And the
alt text or the text for each one of
these images doesn't match. But again,
these are things that we can easily fix.
And I didn't notice this up until now,
but as I'm scrolling through everything,
it's all in just this one consolidated
section. So it's not everywhere on the
page and it's not overwhelming the users
or the visitors. So overall I think for
a completely free version it doesn't
100% compare against chat GBT or Claude
but Ox Alpha did really really well. Now
is Ox Alpha actually as good as everyone
is hyping it up to be in my opinion for
what it was able to do for completely
free? Yeah, it's pretty good. Again it's
not up to the level where Claude Opus 5
is or Chacht 5.6 Soul. It's not at that
level. But again, we're going off of a
completely free version here. So, while
it can make pretty nice and intricate
websites like the one that I just did
right now, like a landing page, I'm not
entirely sure how well it could handle
creating an entire storefront, like
let's say making a backend to it,
attaching a payment processor, or coming
up with a game. Now, if you do want to
see GLM come up with any of these
different ones and how it compares with
any of the other models like I just did,
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video. We're going to be covering a lot
more AI topics and how you can start
making money with that. Now, as far as
the usage for it, so as far as using the
actual model, it's just the exact same
thing as when you're using Claude or
Chat GBT. The way that we used it in
this case is by simply talking to it as
a large language model. It does have the
ability though to connect to Claude Code
through the terminal. Now, if you do
want to learn more about that one and
see how that works, let me know down in
the comments below. I see a lot of
people actually covering it that way. I
decided to make it a lot simpler so that
way anybody can get started with it the
moment that they watch this video. Now,
as far as the compatibility or how you
can connect it with other apps, this is
something that we weren't able to test
and I don't see the option to be able to
connect it to anything else to have any
connectors attached to it. So the way
that we use chat GPT with Shopify or
Claude with AutoDS the way that we
connect it all together through either
MCP connections or different plugins, I
don't see the option for that just yet
on GLM 5.3. Maybe I need to dig around a
little bit more. But again, as it
stands, it's a completely free model. So
for what you're using it for and for
what essentially you're not paying for,
it's definitely 100% worth trying. So
remember, let me know down in the
comments below if you actually want to
try out GLM 5.3. Is it something that
you're going to use? Let me know that
along with the hashtag oxalpha. And once
I see that you went ahead and did that,
I'll send you over the prompt sheet with
the example prompt that I used earlier
to come up with the photographers's
website. Now, if you do want to learn
how you can use any AI or specifically
Claude to build a $10,000 website, make
sure you check out this video right