Who is behind Ox Alpha, the mysterious new frontier LLM on OpenRouter?

·Science and Technology·ends Aug 28, 2026

“Ox Alpha,” an anonymous “stealth” model that appeared on OpenRouter earlier today (August 20, 2026). It’s a reasoning model positioned for coding, sustained agentic work, and production use, with a 1,048,576-token context window, a 131,072-token output cap, and text/image/video input — listed as stealth/ox-alpha on OpenRouter. It’s free during this preview window, with the operator claiming near-unlimited rate limits and 100 trillion tokens/day of serving capacity. There is some buzz on Twitter that it is frontier or even better at coding. See also: @/Sketchy/what-will-the-release-name-of-ox-al