The anonymous model turned out to be a pricing experiment. union alpha, free on openrouter from…
the anonymous model turned out to be a pricing experiment. union alpha, free on openrouter from september 16, scored near the frontier on coding at about a twentieth of the cost, then was revealed as unbiased's pareto 26.9 after burning 2 billion tokens in its first day.
stealth releases are how new labs price-test models before the official launch.
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