Hunter Alpha: The Mystery AI Model That Fooled the Entire Tech World Turned Out to Be Xiaomi’s Secret Weapon
A nameless AI model called Hunter Alpha appeared on OpenRouter, topped the leaderboards, and fooled thousands into thinking it was DeepSeek V4. It turned out to be Xiaomi’s MiMo-V2-Pro, a trillion-parameter model rivaling GPT-5.2 at a fraction of the cost.
