An anonymous lab drops a stealth model offering 100 trillion free tokens a day

Claim

An anonymous lab dropped the stealth model Ox Alpha with a million-token context and 100 trillion free tokens a day, with sleuths fingering everyone from Zhipu to Microsoft, prompting OpenAI to cut its own pricing over 20% for three months.

Reported metric: 100T free tokens/day

Reporting date: 2026-08-23 (not necessarily the event date)

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