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Ox Alpha – A mysterious new AI model

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Re: Ox Alpha – A mysterious new AI model

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> oxalpha.com is an independent site that gives you a free, no-login chat interface to the Ox Alpha model.

Why create a marketing page for someone else? Like it reads just like the typical >>we are the best<<, where you of course don't want to believe the hype. A blog doing a benchmark would be so much more valuable to readers. I am leaving this with more questions than answers.

Re: Ox Alpha – A mysterious new AI model

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> oxalpha.com is an independent site that gives you a free, no-login chat interface to the Ox Alpha model. Why create a marketing page for someone else? Like it reads just like the typical >>we are the best<<, where you of course don't want to believe the hype. A blog doing a benchmark would be so much more valuable to readers. I am leaving this with more questions than answers.

i really doubt its for someone else, this will be from their team surely

Re: Ox Alpha – A mysterious new AI model

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Curiously the domain has existed since 2022 so either they bought it off a reseller (it was some speculative registration and got parked on a for sale page), or there's some longer term planning involved here.

Creation Date: 2022-02-21T22:17:54.00Z

Re: Ox Alpha – A mysterious new AI model

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post #4

> oxalpha.com is an independent site that gives you a free, no-login chat interface to the Ox Alpha model. Why create a marketing page for someone else? Like it reads just like the typical >>we are the best<<, where you of course don't want to believe the hype. A blog doing a benchmark would be so much more valuable to readers. I am leaving this with more questions than answers.

i really doubt its for someone else, this will be from their team surely

You would think that, right? Here's the full text:

> oxalpha.com is an independent site that gives you a free, no-login chat interface to the Ox Alpha model. We are not the model's creators — we're fans of it, like everyone else trying to guess who built it.

Re: Ox Alpha – A mysterious new AI model

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post #4

> oxalpha.com is an independent site that gives you a free, no-login chat interface to the Ox Alpha model. Why create a marketing page for someone else? Like it reads just like the typical >>we are the best<<, where you of course don't want to believe the hype. A blog doing a benchmark would be so much more valuable to readers. I am leaving this with more questions than answers.

i really doubt its for someone else, this will be from their team surely

The FAQ says:

> We are not the model's creators — we're fans of it, like everyone else trying to guess who built it.

Seeing as you can access the model for free in a number of different ways right now - including via OpenRouter https://openrouter.ai/stealth/ox-alpha - it's not far fetched for someone to create a free UI on top of that.

Re: Ox Alpha – A mysterious new AI model

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> oxalpha.com is an independent site that gives you a free, no-login chat interface to the Ox Alpha model. Why create a marketing page for someone else? Like it reads just like the typical >>we are the best<<, where you of course don't want to believe the hype. A blog doing a benchmark would be so much more valuable to readers. I am leaving this with more questions than answers.

Yeah, something about this whole website is just weird. The way it keeps repeating things like:

> Nobody knows who made it — everyone wants to try it.

> nobody knows for sure which lab made it.

It just comes off untrustworthy, like I am getting scammed somehow. The whole thing being written like typical low signal to noise LLM slop does not help either.

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