Sep 1, 2026 · 31 min · 12 segments
An anonymous AI model briefly topped the coding charts, while Google and Thomson Reuters clashed over legal AI and OpenAI unveiled its custom Jalapeno chip. In Episode 89 of What the AI?!, Jeff…
Annie DelgadoHostI like the first story this week was fun because it was kind of like a little whodunit murder mystery for a while.
So a mysterious model named Ox Alpha was listed through OpenRouter, which we talked about last week as being maybe bought by Stripe as a play into the space.
It kind of climbed right up, as you said, within a half point at the state of the art on the coding benchmarks.
Everybody was trying to speculate, where did this thing come from? That was fun.
I think, well, last week I was a little like skeptical about Stripe and like, was this a good acquisition or not? Seems like they probably had a good week because this sort of topped the leaderboard and there was all this traffic.
But the whodunit angle mystery, like, do you think that was genius marketing ploy? Or like, what was the motivation there? Because normally when you work really hard to build a product, you want to brand that thing.
And they're providing zero cost inference for another couple of weeks on their server.
I like the first story this week was fun because it was kind of like a little whodunit murder mystery for a while.
So a mysterious model named Ox Alpha was listed through OpenRouter, which we talked about last week as being maybe bought by Stripe as a play into the space.
It kind of climbed right up, as you said, within a half point at the state of the art on the coding benchmarks.
Everybody was trying to speculate, where did this thing come from? That was fun.
I think, well, last week I was a little like skeptical about Stripe and like, was this a good acquisition or not? Seems like they probably had a good week because this sort of topped the leaderboard and there was all this traffic.
But the whodunit angle mystery, like, do you think that was genius marketing ploy? Or like, what was the motivation there? Because normally when you work really hard to build a product, you want to brand that thing.
And they're providing zero cost inference for another couple of weeks on their server.
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