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A mystery challenger at the AI frontier
Good morning, AI enthusiasts, and welcome to the 11,000 new readers who joined this weekend. A new, seemingly capable AI has landed on the block, and no one knows who built it. The weekend has been all about "Ox Alpha," which showed up on OpenRouter with no lab name attached, frontier-level coding scores, and free…
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