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A free and open AI model named Ox Alpha, with about 1 million Token context and multimodal capabilities, suddenly jumps to second place on OpenRouter's weekly chart, earning high praise from Stripe CEO Patrick Collison, and potentially disrupting the AI industry's valuation logic.
Big-pickle, a free stealth AI model, achieved a 50.8% resolve rate on Scale AI's SWE Atlas Codebase QnA benchmark using the mini-swe-agent scaffold, outperforming other models in its class.
Tencent's Hy3 model is available for free on OpenRouter for two weeks, usable in OpenClaw.
Laguna M.1, a 225B parameter model with 256k context for agentic coding, is now available for free in Cline.
The blogger reminds users that the Cline extension on VSCode can use free models, especially the newly released Qwen 3.7 Max which offers 20M free tokens daily with 1M context length.
Tutorial on how to use the deepseek-v4-flash:free model for free in the hermes-web-ui panel by re-authorizing login via CLI, provided you have subscribed to the nousresearch $0 plan.