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Nobody knows who built AI coding model Ox Alpha or where the code goes

  • Duncan Riley--SiliconANGLE News
  • published date: 2026-08-23 22:37:37 UTC

An anonymous provider has been handing out free access to a frontier-class coding model on OpenRouter Inc. since Aug. 20, and no company has admitted to building it. The model is listed as “Ox Alpha” and costs nothing for input or output tokens. OpenCode, an …

An anonymous provider has been handing out free access to a frontier-class coding model on OpenRouter Inc. since Aug. 20, and no company has admitted to building it. The model is listed as “Ox Alpha… [+4862 chars]