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Ox Alpha: Inside the Mystery AI Model That Appeared Out of Nowhere With a 1M Token Context Window

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A free, anonymous stealth model just landed on OpenRouter, out-benched several frontier names on early coding tests, and nobody knows for certain who built it. Here's everything worth knowing before the free window closes. On August 20, 2026, a new model quietly showed up in OpenRouter's catalog. N…

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  1. 2026-08-23 03:19 · DEV Community — AI
    Ox Alpha: Inside the Mystery AI Model That Appeared Out of Nowhere With a 1M Token Context Window

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