@joelceth

openrouter just dropped a mystery model called pony alpha that processed 4 billion tokens in 24 hours, and everyone is asking the same question: who actually built it? openrouter has done this before. quasar alpha and optimus alpha turned out to be openai's gpt-4.1. sherlock alpha was revealed as xai's grok 4.1 fast. there is always a major lab behind these stealth models. pony alpha is currently free. it has a 200 thousand token context window. it performs well in coding, reasoning, and agentic workflows. in svg benchmarks it matches claude opus 4.5 quality.

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