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A few weeks ago, while I was busy putting the final touches on my Dolly Parton is too fast for the Grim Reaper tattoo, someone anonymously dropped a new Frontier-grade model online.

They called it Ox Alpha, and in its first six days it served 42 trillion tokens, which easily made it the most popular model on Open Router,

doubling the next closest, which was DeepSeek.

It comes with a million token context window, accepts video input, writes code like it has trouble making eye contact, and until just a few days ago, it was completely free.

Some assumed it was Zipu, others Xiaomi, and at least one guy was convinced that Google actually shipped something useful.

In today's video, we'll look at how this anonymous model won over the internet, who's behind it, and see if it can finally help me realize my horse SaaS dream.

It is September 1st, 2026, and you're watching the Code Report.

It hasn't even been two weeks since we talked about how

Silicon Valley is terrified of what's happening in China after the release of DeepSea Karnas.

And unfortunately, Dario and Sam's terrible, horrible, no-good, very-bad month may have gotten even worse because this new anonymous model had Made in China written all over it.

And as we know, things

that escape out of Chinese labs tend to have a big impact on the rest of the world.

The first clue was that AuxAlpha was the fifth anonymous animal model to show up on OpenRouter recently, and the four before it all turned out to be from China.

And even more convincing, some devs noticed that its stack traces and error codes matched Zipu's API, and a tokenizer fingerprint test came back matching their GLM series,

but nobody waited for a confirmation to start using it.

Yes, the fine print did say that all your prompts would be retained by a mysterious, probably foreign entity, but nobody actually cares about privacy when the magic box is free and works this well.

So devs happily pasted their company's proprietary code into it, routed cloud code through it to dodge their rate limits,

and at its peak, Aux Alpha accounted for nearly a third of Open Router's entire weekly traffic.

The hype machine got so out of control

that a misleading screenshot showing an 80% score on the Deep SWE benchmark went viral.

Even though the real number turned out to be closer to 58, and someone even speculated it was so good it might be a stolen Claude checkpoint.

Sure enough, on August 26th, Zipu came clean and announced that Aux Alpha was GLM 5.3 Flash,

a natively multimodal mixture of experts model with 320 billion total parameters, and its MIT-licensed weights hit hugging face the same day.

But the detail that really killed the vibe in Silicon Valley was

that the entire stealth run was served on just 100,000 Chinese-made chips, which I'm told really hurt Jensen's feelings.

Of course, the reveal also meant the free samples were over, and the anonymous endpoint was replaced with an actual pricing page,

but it's still stupid cheap at just 15 cents per million input tokens and 50 cents per million out.

And with a 50% discount through September 9th, it's currently up to 40 times cheaper than Claude.

And as we know, normal launches like this come with a bunch of trust me bro benchmarks

that usually fall apart the second anyone touches them, but their benchmarks hold up pretty well under outside scrutiny.

The catch is that it's slow, loves to yap, and occasionally gets stuck in doom loops, but in my opinion, there's only one way to test if it's actually any good,

and that's by using it on a deer project of mine.

After failing to raise funding for Horsetinder, I've pivoted to its once beloved cousin, Horsetube, a 2016 AngularJS app whose last commit was 10 years ago.

So I asked it to modernize the legacy stack without losing the humor and vibes I had so carefully crafted.

It correctly detected the outdated technologies

and then proceeded to narrate its plan of attack in every little detail for at least 20 minutes.

It then started building a design system in Raw Dog CSS.

It went with a beautiful purple slot background and rainbow gradient buttons, showing true inspiration, sorry, distillation from other popular LLM's visual tastes.

Because of its vision capability, it was able to detect a CSS overflow bug on mobile screens,

properly diagnose it, and fix it with the cursed min-width-equals-zero trick that always seemed to work.

It added some nice enter animations for video cards, which was a really nice touch.

All the bits of humor are still there, and it even added some new ones, like these toast notifications.

Code-wise, it replaced the legacy stack with no stack.

It wrote the app in HTML, CSS and vanilla JavaScript and wrote code that looks like a legacy code base of its own.

But I really wanted to test its vision skills, so I fed it a random horse video and asked it to add it to the app and create a title, description, and comments that are relevant to what's in the video.

It decided to use FFmpeg to break down the video into a series of frames, analyze those frames, and it did a really good job.

It got the full context of what happens in the video, nailed the description, and even aligned the humor with the rest of the platform.

And another tool checking out is Exa, the sponsor of today's video.

It's a search engine built for AI agents that gives you a lot more than just web results.

It includes 350 million research papers, financial data, and info on over 1 billion people and 70 million companies, with new sources added every week.

I hooked it up to PolyShip to let my users gamble on the stock market in even more degenerate ways, like betting on which tech CEOs will sell company stock right before their next earnings call,

and Exo was able to pull the recent SEC filings and convert it into structured JSON in one shot.

It also cites all of its sources, so users can't accuse me of cheating anymore.

You can plug directly into Cloud, ChatGPT, or your other favorite agent using their native plugins,

or try ExaAgent to get answers to more complex queries that need to pull from multiple datasets simultaneously,

which is a lot more powerful than what LLMs can do on their own.

Try Exa today for free and get $20 in credits at the link below.

This has been The Code Report, thanks for watching, and I will see you in the next one.

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В этом видео 58 предложений и 1121 слов для шедоуинга. Речь длится 5:31. Говорящий говорит быстро, около 203 слов в минуту, поэтому звуки часто сливаются и сокращаются. Только 77% слов входят в 3000 самых частых слов английского языка, поэтому лексика сложная.

Ключевая лексика этого видео

15 менее частых слов из видео с произношением и значением:

anonymous /əˈnɒn.ə.məs/ (прилагательное) — анони́мный, безымя́нный. Lacking a name; not named, for example an animal not assigned to any species .
stack /stæk/ (существительное) — сто́пка, ки́па. A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.
legacy /ˈlɛɡəsi/ (существительное) — насле́дство. Money or property bequeathed to someone in a will.
humour /ˈhjuːmɚ/ (существительное) — ю́мор. The quality of being amusing, comical, funny.
token /ˈtoʊkən/ (существительное) — знак, си́мвол. Something serving as an expression of something else.
benchmark /ˈbɛn(t)ʃmɑːk/ (существительное) — крите́рий, мери́ло. A standard by which something is evaluated or measured.
cloud /ˈklaʊ̯d/ (существительное) — о́блако, ту́ча. A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
input /ˈɪnpʊt/ (существительное) — вклад. The act or process of putting in; infusion.
convince /kənˈvɪns/ (глагол) — убежда́ть, убеди́ть. To make someone believe, or feel sure about something, especially by using logic, argument or evidence.
detect /dɪˈtɛkt/ (глагол) — обнару́живать, обнару́жить. To discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing.
vibe /vaɪb/ (существительное) — атмосфе́ра, а́ура. An atmosphere or aura felt to belong to a person, place or thing.
trick /ˈtɹɪk/ (существительное) — обма́н, трюк. Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle.
carefully /ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/ (наречие) — осторо́жно, аккура́тно. With care; attentively, circumspectly.
horrible /ˈhɔɹ.ɪ.bəl/ (прилагательное) — ужа́сный, стра́шный. Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
reveal /ɹɪˈviːl/ (глагол) — выявля́ть, раскрыва́ть. To uncover; to show and display that which was hidden.

Фразовые глаголы, которые вы услышите

break down (глагол) — ломаться, сломаться. To stop functioning.
check out (глагол) — проверя́ть, прове́рить. To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.).
come back (глагол) — возвраща́ться, возврати́ться. To return to a place.
fall apart (глагол) — распада́ться, распа́сться. To disintegrate, to break into pieces.
get in (глагол) — входить, войти. To get into or inside something, literally or figuratively.
hold up (глагол) — задерживать, ждать. To wait or delay.

Произношение, на которое стоит обратить внимание

Говорящий использует 6 сокращённых и редуцированных форм, например can't, hasn't, I'm. Произносите их коротко, так, как слышите.

Звуки «th»: width /ˈwɪtθ/, stealth /stɛlθ/
Звуки «sh» и «zh»: benchmark /ˈbɛn(t)ʃmɑːk/, inspiration /ˌɪn.spɪˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, occasionally /əˈkeɪʒənəli/, animation /ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/, confirmation /ˌkɑn.fəɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/
Длинные слова — следите за ударением: anonymous /əˈnɒn.ə.məs/, inspiration /ˌɪn.spɪˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, occasionally /əˈkeɪʒənəli/, animation /ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/, mysterious /mɪˈstɪɹi.əs/

Как заниматься с этим видео

Прослушайте всё видео один раз молча и выпишите незнакомые слова.
Начните со скорости 0,75×, повторяйте предложение за предложением и вернитесь к обычной скорости, когда станет легко.
Запишите себя и сравните с оригиналом, обращая внимание на такие слова, как anonymous, stack, legacy.

Грамматика в этом видео

Конструкции, которые говорящий использует чаще всего, с точными словами из видео:

Конструкция	В видео
Present Perfect have/has + причастие прошедшего времени — прошлое действие, важное сейчас	hasn't even been · I've pivoted · has been
Пассивный залог be + причастие прошедшего времени — важно, что происходит, а не кто это делает	would be retained · was served · was replaced
Придаточные определительные who / which + предложение — уточнение о человеке или предмете	closest, which was · cards, which was

Что такое техника Shadowing?

Shadowing — это научно обоснованная техника изучения языка, изначально разработанная для подготовки профессиональных переводчиков и популяризированная полиглотом доктором Александром Аргуэльесом. Метод прост, но эффективен: вы слушаете аудио на английском от носителей языка и немедленно повторяете вслух — как тень, следующая за говорящим с задержкой в 1–2 секунды. В отличие от пассивного прослушивания или грамматических упражнений, Shadowing заставляет мозг и мышцы рта одновременно обрабатывать и воспроизводить реальные речевые паттерны. Исследования показывают, что это значительно улучшает точность произношения, интонацию, ритм, связную речь, понимание на слух и беглость речи — что делает его одним из самых эффективных методов для подготовки к IELTS Speaking и реального общения на английском.

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