Who’s behind the new ‘stealth model’ Ox Alpha?

谁是新款“隐形模型” Ox Alpha 背后的推手？

A mysterious new AI model called Ox Alpha has driven certain corners of the internet into a frenzy of speculation about who actually built it. 一款名为 Ox Alpha 的神秘新 AI 模型在互联网的某些角落引发了疯狂的猜测，人们都在探究它究竟出自谁手。

The free model was released on OpenRouter on Thursday, where it was described as “a reasoning model designed for coding, sustained agentic work, and production workload.” 该免费模型于周四在 OpenRouter 上发布，被描述为“一款专为编程、持续代理工作和生产负载而设计的推理模型”。

On X, Stripe CEO Patrick Collison (whose company is acquiring OpenRouter) described Ox Alpha as “very impressive.” 在 X（原推特）上，Stripe 首席执行官 Patrick Collison（其公司正在收购 OpenRouter）称赞 Ox Alpha “非常令人印象深刻”。

So who’s actually behind Ox Alpha? The OpenRouter listing described it as a “stealth model” and said it was “developed and operated by a third-party provider who has chosen to remain anonymous during this preview.” 那么，Ox Alpha 背后的真正推手到底是谁？OpenRouter 的列表将其描述为一款“隐形模型”，并称其由“一家选择在预览期间保持匿名的第三方提供商开发和运营”。

Unsurprisingly, much of the speculation has revolved around China. AI analyst Andrew Curran posted on Friday that the initial speculation focused on the GLM models developed by Chinese company Z.ai, but “this morning people seem less sure of anything.” 不出所料，大部分猜测都围绕着中国展开。AI 分析师 Andrew Curran 周五发文称，最初的猜测集中在中国公司智谱 AI（Z.ai）开发的 GLM 模型上，但“今天早上，人们似乎对任何结论都不那么确定了”。

Similarly, an article on Wccftech first suggested that the evidence pointed to GLM, but an update suggested that Ox Alpha could be an unreleased version of Microsoft’s MAI. 同样，Wccftech 上的一篇文章最初暗示证据指向 GLM，但随后的一项更新又提出，Ox Alpha 可能是微软 MAI 的未发布版本。

And on Reddit, there’s at least one post declaring that Ox Alpha “can’t be the Chinese,” while another expressed “high confidence” that it is, in fact, Chinese. 而在 Reddit 上，至少有一篇帖子断言 Ox Alpha “不可能是中国产的”，而另一篇帖子则表示“高度确信”它确实来自中国。