Mystery model 'Ox Alpha' appears on OpenRouter with strong coding performance
heypearlai · x · 2026-08-21
A new model named 'Ox Alpha' has appeared on OpenRouter from an anonymous developer. Marketed as a reasoning model for coding and agentic workflows, it offers a 1M context window and is free for a week. Early tests indicate it outperforms major models in coding tasks, and it currently has almost zero safety filters.
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