So... has anyone actually figured out whose model Elephant Alpha is yet?

Reddit r/singularity 04/18/26, 02:42 PM News

Summary

Community discusses the identity of 'Elephant Alpha', a 100B parameter model ranked #1 on OpenRouter with 256K context window, fast inference speed, and strong coding capabilities but poor Chinese support, speculating on which company might be behind it.

It's been sitting at #1 on OpenRouter, doing ~250 tps. It's a 100B parameter model, the context window is 256K, and the Chinese language support is notoriously bad. It's clearly heavily optimized for coding and agentic tasks (instruction following is insanely strict). Given the specs and the sheer compute required to serve it this fast for free, the list of companies that could be behind this is pretty short. It doesn't feel like a Google model (they usually share sizes), and the poor Chinese support rules out Qwen/DeepSeek. Are we looking at a new Cohere Command variant? Or maybe a highly optimized MoE from a new startup? What's the current consensus?

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