October 2026 archive

Every AI model release in October 2026

2026-10-01Release
Anonymous "Fledge Alpha" appears on OpenCode Zen — free, 1M-token listed context, maker undisclosed
A free-tier stealth model listed on OpenCode Zen as `fledge-alpha-free`, alongside other unattributed free entries (Big Pickle, Space Bunny Alpha, LongCat 2.5 Preview). No lab, developer or country of origin has been claimed, and no weights are published, so this site records it as an appearance rather than a release from a known maker — the same treatment given to Ox Alpha in August. OpenCode itself supplied the route metadata: its listing on models.dev (checked 2026-10-02) gives a 1,048,576-token context, a 131,072-token output limit, text-and-image input, reasoning effort of low/high/max and $0 input and output, all dated by the operator at 2026-10-01 — so those are vendor-listed figures, not third-party estimates. What none of that establishes is who is behind the model. An independent tracker (StealthModels) reports roughly 61 output tokens per second in its own tests and tokenizer inconsistencies that suggest a router over unidentified faster models — a hypothesis, not an attribution. No benchmark score is recorded on this site: none of the benchmarks tracked here lists the model, and a router's output cannot be pinned to one checkpoint.
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