# The mystery is solved... and the answer is 40x cheaper than Claude

**Published:** October 14, 2026
**Author:** Fireship
**Source:** YouTube — Fireship AI
**Language:** en-US
**HTML:** https://aiqazaqstan.com/en/articles/the-mystery-is-solved-and-the-answer-is-40x-cheaper-than-claude

A few weeks ago, while I was busy putting the final touches on my Dolly Parton is too fast for the Grim Reaper tattoo, is someone anonymously dropped a new frontier grade model online. They called it AUX Alpha and in its first 6 days it served 42 trillion tokens, which easily…

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**Tags:** #OpenAI #Anthropic #Hugging Face #YouTube

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