Turing Post
Ox Alpha, Explained Without the Hype
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An anonymous model called Ox Alpha appeared on OpenRouter and OpenCode on August 20 with a million-token context window, video input, and a price of zero. Within four days it had processed tens of trillions of tokens, and the internet had spent those same four days trying to work out who built it.
In this episode:
how you fingerprint a model you know nothing about,
why the evidence points at…