Ox Alpha – A mysterious new AI model(oxalpha.com)
11 pointsby vismit20005 hours ago8 comments
  • phartenfeller5 hours ago
    > oxalpha.com is an independent site that gives you a free, no-login chat interface to the Ox Alpha model.

    Why create a marketing page for someone else? Like it reads just like the typical >>we are the best<<, where you of course don't want to believe the hype. A blog doing a benchmark would be so much more valuable to readers. I am leaving this with more questions than answers.

    • yorwba5 hours ago
      SEO juice, malware distribution, harvesting payment information, selling the domain to the real model provider... Lots of ways to make a quick buck. For example, last year when Lightricks released the LTX video model, somebody else registered ltxv.video and got 215 upvotes https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43944974 but the Lightricks CTO showed up to inform people that this wasn't their site. It now redirects to ltx.io, so either money changed hands or they filed a trademark dispute.
    • _hao5 hours ago
      This is like when Eric Weinstein went on Rogan and told him and Jamie about https://pullthatupjamie.com as if he wasn't involved with that at all...

      Edit: typos

    • xffff5 hours ago
      It's like someone registered this domain before and then used AI to create a landing page to ride the wave of popularity.
    • gregjw5 hours ago
      i really doubt its for someone else, this will be from their team surely
      • simonw5 hours ago
        The FAQ says:

        > We are not the model's creators — we're fans of it, like everyone else trying to guess who built it.

        Seeing as you can access the model for free in a number of different ways right now - including via OpenRouter https://openrouter.ai/stealth/ox-alpha - it's not far fetched for someone to create a free UI on top of that.

      • maxcb5 hours ago
        You would think that, right? Here's the full text:

        > oxalpha.com is an independent site that gives you a free, no-login chat interface to the Ox Alpha model. We are not the model's creators — we're fans of it, like everyone else trying to guess who built it.

    • sunaurus5 hours ago
      Yeah, something about this whole website is just weird. The way it keeps repeating things like:

      > Nobody knows who made it — everyone wants to try it.

      > nobody knows for sure which lab made it.

      It just comes off untrustworthy, like I am getting scammed somehow. The whole thing being written like typical low signal to noise LLM slop does not help either.

  • walrus015 hours ago
    Is there a name for this almost entirely LLM generated website content template? I'm talking about the top navbar, the content layout. Seen the exact same thing so many times now.
    • refactor_master5 hours ago
      Bootstrap HTML?
      • KronisLV5 hours ago
        I really liked Bootstrap because it was consistent and usable - making web just a tad easier to navigate.

        This modern AI website stuff feels obnoxious - annoying short punchy sentences together with paragraphs of text that meander and don’t get to the point, and often also those weird pulsating status indicators for things that have no status etc.

        • walrus015 hours ago
          The "We're going to animate this and make things weirdly smooth and transparent just because" approach reminds me in a bad way of Windows Vista.
  • walrus015 hours ago
    Curiously the domain has existed since 2022 so either they bought it off a reseller (it was some speculative registration and got parked on a for sale page), or there's some longer term planning involved here.

    Creation Date: 2022-02-21T22:17:54.00Z

  • parting01635 hours ago
    Those task completion percentages cannot possibly be accurate. I have not had anywhere near that amount of success with this model. It is good, but not as good as this page suggests.
  • lapkaaaa5 hours ago
    https://dejan.ai/blog/ox-alpha/

    already been revealed to be GLM

  • recursivedoubts2 hours ago
    can you please use your mysterious new AI model to fix the back button on your webite?
  • NicoJuicy4 hours ago
    Tbh. I think it's a chinese model ( cheap and inefficient in execution, but it's the best cheap ( free ) model atm. Daily driver for my hermes atm, but albeit slow in execution).
  • comrade12345 hours ago
    ...such a generic web page... designed by Ox?