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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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Post by shishcat »

walrus01 wrote: post #5

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

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http://oxalpha.com/ | 14:05:51 July 13, 2025

Got an HTTP 302 response at crawl time

Redirecting to...

https://www.afternic.com/forsale/oxalpha.com?traffic_id=GoDa...

you have your answer:)))

Re: Ox Alpha – A mysterious new AI model

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Post by KronisLV »

refactor_master wrote: post #9
walrus01 wrote: post #6

Is there a name for this almost entirely LLM generated website content template? I'm talking about the top navbar, the content layout. Seen the exact same thing so many times now.

Bootstrap HTML?

I really liked Bootstrap because it was consistent and usable - making web just a tad easier to navigate.

This modern AI website stuff feels obnoxious - annoying short punchy sentences together with paragraphs of text that meander and don’t get to the point, and often also those weird pulsating status indicators for things that have no status etc.

Re: Ox Alpha – A mysterious new AI model

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Post by _hao »

phartenfeller wrote: post #2

> 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.

This is like when Eric Weinstein went on Rogan and told him and Jamie about https://pullthatupjamie.com as if he wasn't involved with that at all...

Edit: typos

Re: Ox Alpha – A mysterious new AI model

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Post by walrus01 »

KronisLV wrote: post #12
refactor_master wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bootstrap HTML?

I really liked Bootstrap because it was consistent and usable - making web just a tad easier to navigate. This modern AI website stuff feels obnoxious - annoying short punchy sentences together with paragraphs of text that meander and don’t get to the point, and often also those weird pulsating status indicators for things that have no status etc.

The "We're going to animate this and make things weirdly smooth and transparent just because" approach reminds me in a bad way of Windows Vista.

Re: Ox Alpha – A mysterious new AI model

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Post by simonw »

simonw wrote: post #8
gregjw wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You can use their AdSense token to see other sites by the same operator. This one fits their pattern: https://builtwith.com/relationships/tag/CA-PUB-1851068468056...

Sites like:

  chatgpt4.org
  picai.com 
  chatai.org
  aidetector.ai

Re: Ox Alpha – A mysterious new AI model

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Post by xffff »

phartenfeller wrote: post #2

> 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.

It's like someone registered this domain before and then used AI to create a landing page to ride the wave of popularity.

Re: Ox Alpha – A mysterious new AI model

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Post by yorwba »

phartenfeller wrote: post #2

> 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.

SEO juice, malware distribution, harvesting payment information, selling the domain to the real model provider... Lots of ways to make a quick buck. For example, last year when Lightricks released the LTX video model, somebody else registered ltxv.video and got 215 upvotes https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43944974 but the Lightricks CTO showed up to inform people that this wasn't their site. It now redirects to ltx.io, so either money changed hands or they filed a trademark dispute.
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