OpenRouter10 min read
Ox Alpha: who is behind OpenRouter's free mystery model?
A nameless model with a 1M-token context dropped on OpenRouter and OpenCode, free for a week, and nobody has claimed it. The forensic trail — a leaked Java stack trace, error code 1214, 30/30 tokenizer matches — points hard at Zhipu’s next GLM.
By Sofia AlmeidaBackgrind Blog

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Originally published by Backgrind Blog on Aug 22, 2026.
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