The anonymous model Ox Alpha (known as "Niu Lai" in the Chinese community) has recently launched on OpenRouter, with its usage rapidly increasing and quickly climbing to the top of the platform's model rankings, breaking the single-day model usage record.

According to the latest data from OpenRouter, the cumulative usage of Ox Alpha by the top five applications, including Hermes Agent and Claude Code, has already exceeded 40 trillion Tokens, indicating that its popularity is rapidly spreading from the community to global developers and real-world agent workflows.

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Currently, the developer of Ox Alpha remains undisclosed. OpenRouter officially defines it as a reasoning model aimed at coding, continuous agent tasks, and production workflows, and emphasizes that it is developed and operated by an anonymous third party. (OpenRouter) Community technical analysis has found that its technical fingerprints, such as the Tokenizer, are highly similar to the Zhipu GLM series, leading some to believe it may originate from Zhipu. At the same time, several researchers from Google DeepMind have posted on social media suggesting that the model may be related to the new version of Gemini, but Google and other manufacturers have not officially acknowledged this yet.

While the identity of Ox Alpha remains unknown, its large-scale usage has already become a focus of attention. As AI Agents move from model testing into actual production processes such as software development and code execution, the actual usage in workloads has become an important indicator of capability and market influence.