Release2026-08-23

An AI model named Ox Alpha appeared last week on the model marketplace OpenRouter under a "stealth model" label, free to use, with no disclosed maker. OpenRouter says it can hold roughly a million tokens of material in view at once and accepts text, images and video. Anonymous listings of this kind are typically temporary previews, so availability is not assured.

What changed

No model under this name was available, and anonymous test models are usually short-lived.

What it unlocks

Trying a very large-context model that handles text, images and video at no cost through OpenRouter.

  • about 1 million-token context window
  • free access on OpenRouter

What you need to act on it

  • an OpenRouter account

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