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

<p>Theo &amp; Ben break down OpenAI&#39;s GPT-5.6 Sol price cut, breakdown the &quot;Ox Alpha&quot; stealth model we now know is GLM 5.3 Flash, then take a drink every time they say &quot;Grok&quot; while ranking every current AI model on a tier list! What could go wrong?</p><p><br></p><p>Thanks to this episode&#39;s sponsor, General Translation:</p><ul><li>General Translation: <a href="https://nerdsnipe.link/gt" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://nerdsnipe.link/gt</a></li></ul><p><br></p><p>Listen wherever you get your podcasts:</p><ul><li>Spotify: <a href="https://nerdsnipe.link/spotify" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://nerdsnipe.link/spotify</a></li><li>Apple: <a href="https://nerdsnipe.link/apple" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://nerdsnipe.link/apple</a></li><li>Elsewhere: <a href="https://nerdsnipe.link/listen" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://nerdsnipe.link/listen</a></li></ul><p><br></p><p>Sources available on our Substack:</p><ul><li><a href="https://nerdsnipe.substack.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://nerdsnipe.substack.com/</a></li></ul><p><br></p><p><u>Timestamps</u></p><p>0:00 Intro</p><p>3:30 OpenAI vs. Anthropic</p><p>14:44 Anthropic’s delayed models</p><p>20:53 Kimi K3 and open weights</p><p>30:08 The Alpha stealth model</p><p>48:26 Model tier list begins</p><p>1:09:53 GPT-5.6 Luna</p><p>1:13:09 Opus and Sonnet</p><p>1:20:25 Gemini models</p><p>1:31:15 DeepSeek and local models</p><p>1:59:58 Fable vs. Sol</p><p>2:28:46 Final rankings</p>