--- title: Who's behind the new ‘stealth model’ Ox Alpha? | daily.dev description: A mysterious free AI model called Ox Alpha appeared on OpenRouter, billed as a reasoning model for coding and agentic workloads by an anonymous third-party... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/who-s-behind-the-new-stealth-model-ox-alpha--gb79q86w4 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Who's behind the new ‘stealth model’ Ox Alpha? | daily.dev og:description: A mysterious free AI model called Ox Alpha appeared on OpenRouter, billed as a reasoning model for coding and agentic workloads by an anonymous third-party... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/who-s-behind-the-new-stealth-model-ox-alpha--gb79q86w4 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/gB79Q86W4.png og:image:alt: Who's behind the new ‘stealth model’ Ox Alpha? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Who's behind the new ‘stealth model’ Ox Alpha? **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A mysterious free AI model called Ox Alpha appeared on OpenRouter, billed as a reasoning model for coding and agentic workloads by an anonymous third-party provider. Speculation about its origin has run wild online, with theories ranging from Chinese lab Z.ai's GLM models to an unreleased version of Microsoft's MAI, while Stripe CEO Patrick Collison called it 'very impressive.' No official confirmation of the developer has emerged. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [A mystery AI model has developers buzzing](https://daily.dev/posts/a-mystery-ai-model-has-developers-buzzing-8adj9fnlg) · TechCentral · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm), [#openrouter](https://daily.dev/tags/openrouter) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/who-s-behind-the-new-stealth-model-ox-alpha--gb79q86w4) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Who's behind the new ‘stealth model’ Ox Alpha?","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/who-s-behind-the-new-stealth-model-ox-alpha--gb79q86w4","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/who-s-behind-the-new-stealth-model-ox-alpha--gb79q86w4"},"datePublished":"2026-08-23T20:03:16.562Z","dateModified":"2026-08-24T20:03:51.858Z","description":"A mysterious free AI model called Ox Alpha appeared on OpenRouter, billed as a reasoning model for coding and agentic workloads by an anonymous third-party...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/abdde56bb8c2ad5adc0997a67b8b43ee?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/abdde56bb8c2ad5adc0997a67b8b43ee?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"TechCrunch","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TechCrunch","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/tc","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/tc"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/who-s-behind-the-new-stealth-model-ox-alpha--gb79q86w4","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"llm,openrouter","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"TechCrunch","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/tc"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Who's behind the new ‘stealth model’ Ox Alpha?"}]} ```