Who’s behind the new ‘stealth model’ Ox Alpha?
A mysterious new AI model called Ox Alpha has driven certain corners of the internet into a frenzy of speculation.
Make your prediction
Will the identity behind the Ox Alpha stealth AI model be publicly confirmed by September 7?
Resolves by Sep 7, 2026
Your prediction
50% · 50/50 coin flip
NOYES
Get smart on it
A mysterious AI model called Ox Alpha was released for free on OpenRouter and described as a reasoning model designed for coding and production work. The model's developer has chosen to remain anonymous, calling it a "stealth model" developed by an unnamed third-party provider. The mysterious release has sparked widespread speculation online about the model's true creator, with various theories suggesting it could be from a Chinese company, Microsoft, or another developer, though no consensus has emerged about its actual origin.
Related news
IBM's new Granite 4.2 models ride the wave of interest in local LLMs
IBM has rolled out the newest models in its family of open-weight large language models designed to be downloaded and self-hosted. The newly launched Granite 4.2 comes in 3B, 8B, and 30B parameter variants. Like previous versions, IBM is taking a decoder-only approach here. These new releases offer a 128,000-token context window natively. The 8B and 30B variants (not the 3B one) also go through an agentic reinforcement learning block; they were trained for expanded capabilities like using the t
IBM Releases Granite 4.2: Bringing Native Reasoning and Agentic RL to Open Enterprise Models
IBM has released Granite 4.2, a family of open reasoning language models in 3B, 8B, and 30B parameter sizes. Unlike earlier Granite releases, which were instruction-following assistants, Granite 4.2 is built around explicit reasoning. Every model can emit a chain of thought before answering, and every model exposes a thinking / non-thinking switch plus a low-effort mode that spends a short reasoning budget on easy questions. The models are decoder-only dense transformers, pre-trained from scrat
