A mysterious new AI model is making the rounds among developers — and cipher is saying who built it.
Ox Alpha appeared connected OpenRouter connected Thursday arsenic a "stealth model" from an anonymous third-party provider. OpenRouter describes it arsenic a "reasoning exemplary designed for coding, sustained agentic work, and accumulation workloads. It is suited for long-horizon package engineering, analyzable reasoning, and workflows that harvester matter pinch ocular context."
It's besides free.
OpenCode, an open-source AI coding agent, said connected X that Ox Alpha would beryllium free for a week pinch "near unlimited usage" and that its supplier had capacity for 100 trillion tokens per day, which is astir 100 times the number of AI tokens Visa said it uses successful an full month.
Ox Alpha has already attracted liking from salient tech figures. Stripe CEO Patrick Collison tried the exemplary and said successful a station connected X that "it's very impressive."
Early speculation suggests it whitethorn beryllium the merchandise of a Chinese AI lab. Wccftech, an online tech publication, suggested that the Chinese laboratory down GLM-5, Z.ai, arsenic 1 possibility, noting that the institution antecedently tested GLM-5 anonymously nether the sanction "Pony Alpha" and that developers person identified similarities successful Ox Alpha's tokenizer behaviour and responses.
That speculation comes arsenic Chinese AI labs for illustration Zhipu, DeepSeek, and Moonshot AI progressively situation US rivals. Models from those companies person approached the capacity of starring American systems astatine a fraction of the costs and are mostly open-source.
Moonshot's Kimi K3, released successful July, is simply a 2.8 trillion-parameter open-weight exemplary built for coding, reasoning, and agentic tasks that quickly drew attraction successful Silicon Valley for its capacity and little price.
Still, the grounds is acold from conclusive.
Wccftech later highlighted a competing study suggesting Ox Alpha's tokenizer could alternatively constituent toward Microsoft's MAI family.
On Saturday, Andrew Curran, a salient AI analyst, wrote connected X that GLM had been the starring mentation connected Friday night, but by Saturday morning, "people look little judge of anything."
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