OpenRouter's Mysterious Union Alpha Looks Like A 'Brain Of Brains' AutoRouter
airesearch12 · x · 2026-09-17
TNG Technology reverse-engineered OpenRouter's stealth model "Union Alpha" and concluded it's not one model but an AutoRouter—a brain of brains. Evidence: domain-dependent timeouts suggesting different backends, wildly variable token counts, multiple knowledge cutoffs, and alignment behavior that flips on and off like the moon.
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