Evidence suggesting Quasar Alpha is OpenAI's new model

A few days ago, OpenRouter announced Quasar Alpha, a "cloaked model" provider designed to "gather feedback from the community." Since then, Quasar Alpha has become the #1 AI model on OpenRouter in terms of computer programming usage (based on token count for several consecutive days). This is from yesterday: Here's what we know about this mysterious new AI model so far: Evidence Pointing to OpenAI Ownership Quasar Alpha's tool call ID format matches OpenAI's format: This new model also supports a “name” field in the message object, provided by that chat completion API spec. Only two AI providers currently have a “name” field: xAI and OpenAI. Pallav Agarwal on X also posted a screenshot showing further evidence of the connection with OpenAI: Some have even speculated that this is OpenAI's o4-mini-low model behind the mask, which would definitely be an interesting marketing play. More evidence: The upstream ID found in the generation details is the same you find in OpenAI gene ... Read full article.