# Nobody Knows Who Built Ox Alpha — And That’s the Point of a Stealth Model

On Thursday, a free AI model turned up on OpenRouter carrying no name at all. Inside of 48 hours, a slice of the internet had concluded it was Chinese, then walked that back, then landed on Microsoft. The model goes by Ox Alpha. According to its OpenRouter listing, it's "a reasoning model designed f

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| Published | 24 August 2026 |

Source: https://egamers.io/nobody-knows-who-built-ox-alpha-and-thats-the-point-of-a-stealth-model/