AI Model Reviews

So Thinking Machines, which is part of the "spun-off" start-ups from OpenAI (Anthropic can be considered the first), released some time back their open-weight Inkling pair of models. With Inkling totalling 975B parameters (41B active) and its little brother Inkling-Small 276B (12B active), both are Mixture-of-Experts models and both represent what most can be said to represent the "West's" big answer to the Chinese dominance of bit open-weight models, such as DeepSeek v4 Pro, Kimi K3 or Qwen 3.8 all of which surpass the 1T parameter size.

A few days ago, OpenRouter was nice enough to email me pitching a free "stealth" model that was called "Ox-Alpha". There isn't a lot of information about it but the internet has been very much on the hunt for clues as to who this model belongs to and what are its features. This is something, that personally for me, is a new category and play from an undisclosed lab in order to test their model out before attribution, so OpenRouter apparently has this category, which is further explain under their Stealth API & Models — OpenRouter.