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AI & Enterprise
Mystery AI model Ox Alpha confirmed as China\'s Z.ai product
China\'s AI research lab Z.ai has been confirmed as the developer of the anonymous coding model Ox Alpha. The model appeared on OpenRouter without a logo, company name or separate announcement and drew millions of developer queries in a week. It supports a 1,048,576-token context window and can handle text, images and video. Developers and researchers traced it through tokenizer fingerprinting, server-response comparisons and error-format tests.
AI & Enterprise
Google in talks for $1.5 billion deal to license Mechanize technology, targets AI coding expansion
Google is in talks with AI coding startup Mechanize over a deal worth about $1.5 billion, including securing a non-exclusive licence to its technology and hiring some staff involved in model evaluation and development. Mechanize, founded last year, is developing simulation environments, evaluation benchmarks and scoring systems to train AI agents. Google is considering using the technology to strengthen coding performance as its coding agent faces competition from Anthropic and OpenAI.
AI & Enterprise
Stripe CEO says software in AI era should be made to order like pizza
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison said software in the AI era should be made on demand rather than mass-produced, likening it to pizza prepared to order. Speaking on the TBPN podcast, he said software should not be monetised infinitely based on fixed costs but built at the time it is used. Business Insider said the remarks reflect tech industry tensions over AI’s impact on existing software models.
