Ox Alpha Revealed, OpenAI's Latest Pricing Updates, and Our Coding Model Tier List

Theo & Ben break down OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol price cut, breakdown the "Ox Alpha" stealth model we now know is GLM 5.3 Flash, then take a drink every time they say "Grok" while ranking every current AI model on a tier list! What could go wrong?

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro

3:30 OpenAI vs. Anthropic

14:44 Anthropic’s delayed models

20:53 Kimi K3 and open weights

30:08 The Alpha stealth model

48:26 Model tier list begins

1:09:53 GPT-5.6 Luna

1:13:09 Opus and Sonnet

1:20:25 Gemini models

1:31:15 DeepSeek and local models

1:59:58 Fable vs. Sol

2:28:46 Final rankings