A mysterious new AI model is making the rounds among developers — and nobody is saying who built it. Ox Alpha appeared on OpenRouter on Thursday as a “stealth model” from an anonymous third-party provider. OpenRouter describes it as a “reasoning model designed for coding, sustained agentic work, and production workloads. It is suited for
The launch of the latest AI model from a Chinese company, Moonshot AI’s Kimi, has reignited debates about American competitiveness and open versus proprietary AI. While there has been a lot of conversation on social media, it appears the debate is also taking place behind the scenes in Washington, DC, where OpenAI and Anthropic have
Chinese company Moonshot AI this week launched a new version of its Kimi model, generating another wave of discourse about China and open source AI. Moonshot said that although the Kimi K3 “still lags behind the most powerful proprietary models, the Claude Fable 5 and GPT 5.6 Sol,” the new open source model “demonstrated frontier-level