Two Unidentified Models Drop on OpenRouter

On March 11, two previously unknown AI models quietly appeared on OpenRouter under the names Hunter Alpha and Healer Alpha. Neither model carries any lab attribution — and their specs are striking.

Hunter Alpha is described as a "1 trillion parameter + 1M token context frontier intelligence model built for agentic use." According to its listing, it excels at long-horizon planning, complex reasoning, and sustained multi-step task execution. The pricing: $0 per million tokens, input and output.

Healer Alpha takes the omni-modal approach — it natively perceives visual and audio inputs, reasons across modalities, and executes complex multi-step tasks. Also free.

Who Made These?

That's the open question. Two theories dominate community discussion.

The leading hypothesis is DeepSeek V4. Rumors have long described DeepSeek's next release as a trillion-parameter architecture with a 1M-token context window and multimodal capabilities — specs that match Hunter Alpha closely. DeepSeek labs have not commented.

A competing theory points to Google: some users noted behavioral similarities to a large Gemini reasoning model and a Gemma-series multimodal variant.

The "Alpha" naming suggests these are test or preview builds. OpenRouter has a history of hosting stealth model evaluations before official announcements.

Why It Matters

A 1T-parameter model offered at zero cost, with no lab attached, is unusual. Whether this turns out to be a quiet DeepSeek V4 preview, a Google A/B test, or something else entirely — both models are live and accessible now at openrouter.ai.