Mystery trillion-param models surface on OpenRouter free
Two anonymous "stealth" models — Hunter Alpha (1T-parameter agentic text model with 1M token context) and Healer Alpha (omni-modal: text/image/audio/video input with 262K context) — appeared on OpenRouter under the openrouter/ namespace, temporarily free but logging all prompts for provider training data. The provider identity is unconfirmed; community evidence strongly points to ZhiPu AI based on the prior "Pony Alpha" stealth release that was later revealed as GLM-5.
Free frontier-scale models with native reasoning and tool use, available via standard API today — the stealth release pattern is becoming a legitimate go-to-market strategy for non-Western AI labs trying to generate benchmark data and buzz simultaneously.
- –Hunter Alpha's 1M token context at claimed 1T parameters would place it among the largest context windows available anywhere, if specs are genuine
- –Healer Alpha's omni-modal architecture (text + image + audio + video in) is rare at this access tier; 7.1M requests and 40.5B prompt tokens logged in a single day signals massive developer uptake
- –The ZhiPu AI theory is well-supported: the same OpenRouter stealth provider previously released "Pony Alpha," later confirmed as GLM-5; these specs fit a scaled successor
- –The data logging caveat is the real cost — users are contributing training data in exchange for free inference, which is ethically fine if disclosed but worth knowing before sending proprietary code or content
- –DeepSeek V4 speculation is circulating but considered less credible given the provider history; no official DeepSeek announcement has come
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74d ago
2026-03-14
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77d ago
2026-03-11
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