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Re: Ox Alpha

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I don’t understand this mentality which I see over and over again on here. It’s not like the US frontier labs are beacons of morality and transparency. It’s also pretty accepted within this community that a lot of data fed to US tech companies ends up with the Israeli government. Meanwhile the current US government headed by Donny Tango has done a very thorough job of proving itself to be about as predictable and dep…

It’s really about incentives more than morals. I know that, being in the US, if Anthropic steals my company’s trade secrets through model inputs contrary to our policy that I will (in theory) have legal standing and enforceable contracts against them. The same is not true against DeepSeek, and especially not against “Stealth”.

You can use DeepSeek’s models through a provider that doesn’t train on your data, nor retain it. You could also self host them.

Re: Ox Alpha

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The "mia" persona on X has a specific vaguepost: https://x.com/MiaAI_lab/status/2090736338328748220?s=20 > "I've got a confirmation on what model is Ox Alpha, but I can't share it yet. What I can say is this: You should ALL get really excited for this one!!! And it’s NOT what you think it is" And others have said they have done analysis and found it to be GLM 5.x related. That said, Mia said "it will be OSS" and "it'…

I'm suspecting it is Deepseek flash-vision-exp V4

Re: Ox Alpha

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I highly recommend feeding all your proprietary data and confidential personal information into this model as quickly as possible. What could possibly go wrong?! In terms of equivalence of suspicion, this is the external inference provider equivalent of getting free steak that was smuggled out of a grocery store inside somebody's pants.

Just a few years ago, people would lose their marbles if some software installed a background agent to send you notifications or something. Now we agreed that it's totally normal to have software that does remote code execution on our machines, for which it first has to transfer all data to a remote server. We've already normalized this. It doesn't really matter who gets access to said machine/data - they will all re…

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Re: Ox Alpha

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Anonymous unreleased models are made available on arena.ai all the time, it's not really news that one is on openrouter...

There seems to be a big increase in posts that link to OpenRouter for no good reason, even when a better sources are available.

Stripe marketing blitz?

Re: Ox Alpha

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It's Chinese. Won't answer anything about Tiananmen Square but will gleefully give you instructions to perform various electronic warfare attacks that opus and fable instantly refuse. Side tangent, why is fable so weird about questions involving "Welch's method"? Even really trivial ones it'll shut down frequently. CFAR and STFT are both totally fine but Welch's is apparently taboo, it's wild.

I suspect Fable refuses to talk about anything biology whatsoever (so much so that I can't use it) -- and Welch's test, i.e. an unequal variance t test, is beloved by biologists. Stupid, but there ya go...

I had Fable flag my question as unsafe with tag [bio] for asking it to ... use Unicode graphemes. In Elixir code that already was using this function elsewhere: https://elixir.hexdocs.pm/String.html

Re: Ox Alpha

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I highly recommend feeding all your proprietary data and confidential personal information into this model as quickly as possible. What could possibly go wrong?! In terms of equivalence of suspicion, this is the external inference provider equivalent of getting free steak that was smuggled out of a grocery store inside somebody's pants.

ironically this model is zero data retention on opencode, which is more private than the lowest retention offered by openai, google, or anthropic on their consumer plans.

Re: Ox Alpha

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I highly recommend feeding all your proprietary data and confidential personal information into this model as quickly as possible. What could possibly go wrong?! In terms of equivalence of suspicion, this is the external inference provider equivalent of getting free steak that was smuggled out of a grocery store inside somebody's pants.

I'm kind of fascinated by how many of the same audiences who are highly skeptical of OpenAI and Anthropic are the same people running straight to other country's models. The most oft-repeated rebuttal I've heard is that they don't care what other government know about them. I guess their threat model hasn't considered any privacy issues, data mining, or leakage risks, just the possibility of the federal government do…

tdlr, chinese open models are more private and secure.

openai and anthropic plans steal your data. if you opt out they still log it, and send it to moderators to view if it gets flagged.

the other models are very often hosted by western providers with much stronger privacy and tighter contracts that the other subscriptions won't offer. they don't train, don't log and don't send to moderators.

Re: Ox Alpha

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> Chinas national policy is to destroy everyone’s life using espionage, bribery etc . They frame lack of morality as strength. And that differs from US foreign policy, how?

The US doesn't cut up dissidents for organs for one.

Re: Ox Alpha

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It's Chinese. Won't answer anything about Tiananmen Square but will gleefully give you instructions to perform various electronic warfare attacks that opus and fable instantly refuse. Side tangent, why is fable so weird about questions involving "Welch's method"? Even really trivial ones it'll shut down frequently. CFAR and STFT are both totally fine but Welch's is apparently taboo, it's wild.

Rumors from other sources based on how it behaves it's mimo v3

Possibly next Longcat by Meituan too.

Re: Ox Alpha

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Hah, I use the same probe when I’m unsure which provider openrouter is routing me to! Fwiw, deepseek v4 will happily discuss it. Only chinese providers will stop it in its tracks and give a canned answer. Streamed responses sometimes start with what the model was actually generating before it got cut off. It’s top bad, really. Sometimes the Chinese providers are the model labs themselves, like deepseek. I’d like my m…

The serving endpoint can censor. At TrustedRouter we ran the same GLM-4.7 weights on both hosts: Cerebras answered all 60 FreedomBench questions; one Z.ai endpoint went blank on 27. https://trustedrouter.com/blog/censored-at-the-host-not-the-...

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