Ox Alpha questioned as overhyped; early tests show non-frontier performance
peterwildeford · x · 2026-08-24
Peter Wilford and Ethan Mollick question the hype surrounding the mysterious model 'Ox Alpha'. Early experiments indicate that while the model performs fine, it is not at the frontier level, even among open-weight models. Comparative tests suggest Kimi K3 outperforms it on specific tasks.
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