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Ox Alpha, a "stealth model" from an unknown AI lab with a 1M-token multimodal context and capacity for 100T tokens/day, goes viral after launching on OpenRouter
TL;DRUnknown AI lab released Ox Alpha, a free model with massive context window and processing capacity, on OpenRouter.
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