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An artificial intelligence model showed up last week on a developer platform. Now it's stirring talk that DeepSeek may be quietly testing its next system before an official release.

The free model is called Hunter Alpha.

It surfaced on the AI Gateway platform Open Router on March 11th, without any developer attribution

and was later described by the platform as a stealth model.

During tests conducted by Reuters, the Hunter Alpha chatbot described itself as a Chinese

AI model primarily trained in Chinese and said its training data extended to May of 2025,

the same knowledge cutoff point described by DeepSeek's own chatbot.

When asked about its creator, however, the system declined to identify its developer,

saying, I only know my name, my parameter scale, and my context window length.

Neither DeepSeek nor Open router has identified the model's creator and they

did not respond to request for comment. Hunter Alpha's profile page describes it as a one trillion

parameter model, meaning it was trained using roughly one trillion adjustable values that determine

how the system processes language and generates responses.

While the overlap has fueled speculation, analysts remain divided on whether the anonymous system

is linked to DeepSeek's upcoming release.

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on downbeat guidance, increased tariff costs, and continued weakness in its America's segment.

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The company just launched two new workout lines, unrestricted power and show zero. Show Zero is designed to

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