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Morning Edition · Tuesday, August 25, 2026Published at 2:26 AM EDT · New York
An Anonymous Model With a One-Million-Token Context Consumed 11.6 Trillion Tokens on OpenRouter in Three Days
Listed only as "Stealth" and free during its preview period, Ox Alpha has prompted tokenizer fingerprinting attempts that point toward China's Z.ai, though no lab has claimed it.
A model called Ox Alpha appeared on OpenRouter on August 20 under the provider name "Stealth," with no lab identified behind it. The listing shows a 1,048,576-token context window, a 131,072-token maximum output, support for text, image and…
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Chinese Open-Weight Models Emerge as the Non-US AI Stack
As Washington restricts foreign access to US frontier models, governments and enterprises cut off from American AI increasingly standardize on downloadable Chinese open-weight models, splitting the world into competing AI supply blocs rather than a single frontier.
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