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openrouter/elephant-alpha is 99% Chinese, likely Qwen 3 Nex

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21 Aug
New stealth model on OpenRouter: Ox Alph

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1vu8n8i/new_stealth_model_on_openrouter_ox_alph/"> <img alt="New stealth model on OpenRouter: Ox Alph"

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8 Apr
ATOM Report highlights the sheer dominance of Chinese labs in the Open-Source LLM space

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1sfyo18/atom_report_highlights_the_sheer_dominance_of/"> <img alt="ATOM Report highlights the sheer

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28 Jul
First evidence of a pending qwen3.7 open weights release. Qwen3.7-flash is on open router. They referred to Qwen3.6-35b-a3b as Qwen3.6 flash so this is likely a small MoE. The prices are substantially cheaper than 3.6 flash with a native 1M context window.

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1v8kbwn/first_evidence_of_a_pending_qwen37_open_weights/"> <img alt="First evidence of a pending qwen3.7

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4 May
openrouter/owl-alpha = Meituan_LongCat

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Noticed calls in my LLM boardroom app and reliased the @OpenRouter stealth model (openrouter/owl-alpha) is @Meituan_LongCat</p> </div><!-- SC_ON

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23 Jul
Those bad, bad open source Chinese labs, distilling from Anthropic!

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1v46sqn/those_bad_bad_open_source_chinese_labs_distilling/"> <img alt="Those bad, bad open source Chinese

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30 Apr
Qwen-Scope: Official Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) for Qwen 3.5 models

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1szrbub/qwenscope_official_sparse_autoencoders_saes_for/"> <img alt="Qwen-Scope: Official Sparse

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