DeepSeek is secretly testing its new artificial intelligence
On the eleventh of March, two artificial intelligence models named Hunter Alpha and Healer Alpha appeared on the OpenRouter service without any major announcements or official statements. This was reported by Zamin.uz.
The platform presented them only under a list of hidden models, providing no information about their creator or details. Nevertheless, this stealth launch soon attracted the attention of the wider public and experts.
The reason is that the Hunter Alpha model processed more than 160 billion tokens, or units of data, in just one week. This is a very large volume, leading developers to believe that DeepSeek is testing its new main model before its official presentation.
According to information on the OpenRouter website, the Hunter Alpha model has one trillion parameters, with a memory or context window that includes one million tokens. It is described as an agent specially designed for complex planning, deep logical analysis, and multi-step task execution.
The Healer Alpha model, meanwhile, is a multi-dimensional assistant capable of processing various types of data such as text, images, and sound, with a context window of 262 thousand tokens. According to the Reuters news agency, this chatbot is primarily trained in Chinese and presents itself as a Chinese artificial intelligence with a knowledge base up to May 2025.
Some researchers emphasize that its thinking style and system commands, including expressions about strict compliance with Chinese laws, indicate that this model was created in China. This view seems to confirm some local media speculations about the DeepSeek V4 model expected in April.
However, other experts remain skeptical. Independent testers say that the model’s behavior with data, censorship standards, and relatively weak results in mathematics do not fully correspond to previous DeepSeek systems.
Another theory points to the Zhipu AI company, as this anonymous provider on OpenRouter previously released the Pony Alpha model, which was later revealed to be the GLM-5 model. So far, it has not been confirmed who is behind the Hunter Alpha and Healer Alpha models, and this question awaits its answer.
