Stealth market share this week
Short Answer
1. Market Behavior & Drivers
- Outcomes above 3.0% and 4.5% appear more probable given Ox Alpha's 31% peak traffic.
- Market share above 6.0% and 7.5% appears significantly undervalued by Ox Alpha's 31% peak.
Current Context
Sources (8)
- 1What Is Ox Alpha? The Stealth Model Everyone Is Testing, Explained | CellCogcellcog.ai
- 2Z.AI Reveals It Secretly Built Ox Alpha, the Model That Beat DeepSeek - Startup Fortunestartupfortune.com
- 3Ox Alpha Stealth Model: Signal vs Noisekie.ai
- 4Stealth market share this week | Prediction Marketscoinbase.com
- 5Ox Alpha: Mystery AI Model Crosses 10.8 Trillion Tokens by Sunday Evening - NewsCenter.ionewscenter.io
- 6Stealth Technologies - Market Share Analysis, Industry Trends & Statistics, Growth Forecasts (2026 - 2031)giiresearch.com
- 7Artificial Intelligence: Supply-Chain Chokepointsand the Reach of Industrial Policyarxiv.org
- 8Memory Scarcity, Open Models, and the Restructuring of the AI Industry, 2026–2030 A quantitative scenario analysis of inference economics, training-cost divergence, and infrastructure solvencyarxiv.org
2. Price Chart
Historical Price (Probability)
3. Significant Price Movements
Notable price changes detected in the chart, along with research into what caused each movement.
Outcome: Above 6.0%
📉 August 27, 2026: 11.0pp drop
Price decreased from 12.0% to 1.0%
Outcome: Above 3.0%
📈 August 26, 2026: 24.0pp spike
Price increased from 16.0% to 40.0%
📈 August 25, 2026: 11.0pp spike
Price increased from 4.0% to 15.0%
Sources (8)
- 1Z.AI Reveals It Secretly Built Ox Alpha, the Model That Beat DeepSeek - Startup Fortunestartupfortune.com
- 2Ox Alpha Stealth Model: Signal vs Noisekie.ai
- 3Will OpenAI’s Astra model be released by September 15, 2026? — 37% | Orrery market check | Orreryorrery.me
- 4Embodied-R1.5: Evolving Physical Intelligence via...arxiv.org
- 5The Remarkable Effectiveness of Providing AI Agents with Natural Language Tools: A Replication Studyarxiv.org
- 6Mat-Pref: Verifiable-Reward Training Improves Compositional Reasoning in Inorganic Materialsarxiv.org
- 7A quarter of the S&P now claims measurable AI benefits. Last year it was 14%thenextweb.com
- 8Nobody Will Claim Ox Alpha, Everybody Is Using It - AgntAIagntai.net
4. Market Data
Contract Snapshot
Contracts resolve "YES" if Stealth market share this week is above the specified percentage threshold (e.g., 3.0%, 4.5%, or 6.0%), and "NO" if it is at or below that threshold. Trading begins Sunday, August 30, at 12:00 am EDT, with a maximum payout date listed as August 30, 2026; no other special settlement conditions or data sources are detailed.
Market Discussion
In late August 2026, "Ox Alpha," a mysterious "stealth" model with an undisclosed developer, rapidly gained market share on the OpenRouter platform, capturing approximately 2.0% of observed volume in its first week and briefly surpassing established models [1][2][3]. By August 26, 2026, Z.ai officially confirmed it was the creator, a fact correctly anticipated by prediction markets [1][3][4]. Broader AI market share trends in 2026 indicate Chinese-developed models holding a dominant share of open model inference on platforms like OpenRouter, while Anthropic and OpenAI lead enterprise API spend and consumer referrals, respectively [5][6][7].
Sources (7)
- 1Which Company Owns Ox Alpha? Winner Odds | Lines.comlines.com
- 2Ox Alpha Stealth Model: Signal vs Noisekie.ai
- 3Z.AI Reveals It Secretly Built Ox Alpha, the Model That Beat DeepSeek - Startup Fortunestartupfortune.com
- 4A Mystery AI Model Just Appeared With No Company Name Attached. Reddit Is Solving It by Counting Its Emojis.aiangst.com
- 5LLM Statistics 2026: Market Size, Market Share, and Why the Two Leaders Are Different Companies - Axis Intelligenceaxis-intelligence.com
- 6Dylan Patel: OpenAI, Anthropic to control most usable compute by 2028 — AI Insidersaiinsiders.net
- 7https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.07190arxiv.org
5. Trader Dashboard
6. How did Ox Alpha's cost-per-token and performance benchmarks compare to leading models on OpenRouter, like DeepSeek and Anthropic's Claude series, in August 2026?
| API Input Token Cost | $0.15/million tokens (after August 26, 2026) [1][2][3] |
|---|---|
| API Output Token Cost | $0.50/million tokens (after August 26, 2026) [1][2][3] |
| Free Preview Period | August 20–26, 2026 [1] |
Sources (7)
- 1Ox Alpha - API Pricing & Providersopenrouter.ai
- 2Surprise: Z.ai is the AI lab behind the mysterious Ox Alpha...techcrunch.com
- 3Z.AI Reveals It Secretly Built Ox Alpha, the Model That Beat DeepSeek - Startup Fortunestartupfortune.com
- 4AI Model Ox Alpha Is Free, Beats Claude Fable, and Nobody Knows Who Built It - Decryptdecrypt.co
- 5Ox Alpha: the best model of the week has no nameartificialcode.substack.com
- 6What Is Ox Alpha? Free 1M-Context Stealth Modelkie.ai
- 7Strategic Analysis of the 'Ox Alpha' Stealth AI Model: Creator Attribution, Architectural Benchmarks and HealthTech Applicationshealthcare.digital
7. Beyond the official reveal, what other developer community trends or competing model updates during late August 2026 could have influenced Ox Alpha's market share?
| DeepSWE Benchmark Claim | 80% [1] |
|---|---|
| Ox Alpha Model Positioning | Low-cost, high-efficiency reasoning model [2][3][4] |
| ZAI Competitive Status | Rivaled Anthropic and OpenAI with a new AI model [5] |
Sources (5)
- 1Who's behind the new 'stealth model' Ox Alpha?techcrunch.com
- 2GLM-5.3-Flash (formerly ox-alpha) Usage, Cost & Rankopencode.ai
- 3Z.ai shares surge 8% on new AI model running only...cnbc.com
- 4Z.AI Reveals It Secretly Built Ox Alpha, the Model That Beat DeepSeek - Startup Fortunestartupfortune.com
- 5OpenAI’s Revenue Run Rate Tops $40 Billion Ahead of IPO | Bloomberg Businessweekyoutube.com
8. What evidence from OpenRouter platform data and third-party trackers supports the reports of Ox Alpha reaching over 16 trillion tokens processed by August 23, 2026?
| Tokens Processed | Approximately 16 trillion tokens by August 23, 2026 [1][2][3][4] |
|---|---|
| OpenRouter Ranking | #2 most-used model [1][5] |
| Developer Community Sessions | Over 5 million sessions [1][5] |
Sources (5)
- 1What Is Ox Alpha? The Stealth Model Everyone Is Testing,...cellcog.ai
- 2Ox Alpha: 1M Tokens, No Name, and Real Risk - slidefactorytheslidefactory.com
- 3Ox Alpha AI Model on OpenRouter Sparks Mystery Over Creatortheoutpost.ai
- 4An Anonymous AI Model Called Ox Alpha Is Free, Impressive and Possibly Built by a Sanctioned Chinese Labvktr.com
- 5Who Let the Ox Out?saanyaojha.substack.com
9. What are the most reliable public sources for tracking near-real-time model usage and market share on the OpenRouter platform for the week of August 24, 2026?
| Peak weekly traffic share for Ox Alpha | 31% (week of August 24, 2026) [1][2][3] |
|---|---|
| Tokens processed by Ox Alpha | 62 trillion tokens [3] |
| Ox Alpha stealth preview period | August 20 to August 26, 2026 [3] |
Sources (6)
- 1The stealth model that beat DeepSeek belongs to Zhiputhenextweb.com
- 2Ox Alpha AI Model on OpenRouter Sparks Mystery Over Creatortheoutpost.ai
- 3What is Ox Alpha? Everything we know about the stealth model - LumaDocklumadock.com
- 4LLM Rankingsopenrouter.ai
- 5Data - Authoritative AI Usage Data for Researchopenrouter.ai
- 6Understand your AI usage: every agent, model, and requestopenrouter.ai
10. What was the immediate impact on daily token volume after Zhipu AI's August 26, 2026, announcement confirming Ox Alpha as its GLM-5.3-Flash model?
| Stealth Preview Token Volume | 44-62 trillion tokens [1][2][3] |
|---|---|
| Stealth Preview Market Share | Nearly 31% of weekly token traffic on OpenRouter [1][2][3] |
| Post-Preview Input Token Price | $0.15 per million [4] |
Sources (5)
- 1Z.ai stock surges after launching GLM-5.3-Flash on...finance.yahoo.com
- 2Ox Alpha Unmasked: Z.ai's GLM-5.3-Flash Clocks 44T Tokensstable-learn.com
- 3Zhipu AI shares jump as viral Ox Alpha model revealed...scmp.com
- 4Ox Alpha Was GLM-5.3-Flash: Anatomy of a Stealth Model...apidog.com
- 5Stealth market share this week Odds & Predictions 2026 - Kalshikalshi.com
11. What Could Change the Odds
Key Catalysts
Key Dates & Catalysts
- Expiration: August 31, 2026
- Closes: August 31, 2026
Sources (21)
- 1What Is Ox Alpha? The Stealth Model Everyone Is Testing, Explained | CellCogcellcog.ai
- 2Z.AI Reveals It Secretly Built Ox Alpha, the Model That Beat DeepSeek - Startup Fortunestartupfortune.com
- 3Ox Alpha: The Anonymous Model That Appeared, and What the Coverage Missedstealthmodel.novcog.us.com
- 4Ox Alpha: Mystery AI Model Crosses 10.8 Trillion Tokens by Sunday Evening - NewsCenter.ionewscenter.io
- 5Stealth Price, XST Price, Live Charts, and Marketcapcoinbase.com
- 6Why Is Stealth (XST) Crypto Back on Traders' Radar?...bitcoinfoundation.org
- 7Stealth PoQ42q…pump Price | Buy & Swap on Solflare walletsolflare.com
- 8Bloomberg Money: Bond Moves, Social Security and the US Open | Bloomberg Intelligenceyoutube.com
- 9Alibaba Raises $10 Billion in Record Hong Kong Share Sale | Bloomberg Intelligenceyoutube.com
- 10The Next Phase of the AI Buildout | Bloomberg Businessweekyoutube.com
- 11Stealthy Targeted Attack Injection with Contextual Triggers...arxiv.org
- 12Agentic AI: User Empowerment or Enclosure?arxiv.org
- 13Stealthy Targeted Attack Injection with Contextual Triggers...arxiv.org
- 14ElasticBack: Stealthy Conditional Backdoor in LLM-Agent...arxiv.org
- 15Trojaning the Alignment: Stealthy Backdoor Attacks against Graph Foundation Modelsarxiv.org
- 16Do Chatbots Walk the Talk of Responsible AI?arxiv.org
- 17The 2025 AI Agent Index Documenting Technical and...arxiv.org
- 18ORIGINAL RESEARCH PAPER Jinesh Patel Arpit Malhotra...arxiv.org
- 19Superplatforms Have to Attack AI Agentsarxiv.org
- 20StealthBench: Measuring Operational Stealth in Autonomous Offensive-Security Agentsarxiv.org
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