Ox Alpha was not a mystery model.
It was a stress test of three things at once:
- Can a Chinese lab ship a usable frontier model in stealth?
- Can it absorb 20T+ tokens of global traffic for free?
- Can it do that on domestic chips, not Nvidia?
The answer, this week, was yes.
China gave the world 20T+ tokens for free, claimed 100T/day capacity, then confirmed the inference ran on domestic chips.
- You can argue about quality.
- You cannot argue about the demonstration.