Union Alpha AI Guide: Everything We Know

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Get the Agent OS & Union Alpha Masterclass πŸ‘‰ https://www.skool.com/ai-profit-lab-7462/about Want to make money and save time with AI? Join here: https://www.skool.com/ai-profit-lab-7462/about Get a FREE AI Automation Strategy Session: https://juliangoldieaiautomation.com/ Get a FREE AI SEO Strategy Session: https://go.juliangoldie.com/strategy-session?utm=julian A free AI model appeared online with zero backstory, shot to the top of coding benchmarks, and nobody could figure out who built it. 33 hours later, the truth came out β€” and it wasn't a company at all. This breaks down exactly how "Pareto" works, how it scores against Fable, Astro, and DeepSeek, and why steady beats flashy for real agent work. 00:00 Intro – Free mystery AI tops coding charts, no maker known 00:38 The Listing – "Union Alpha" appears on OpenRouter, Sept 16 01:19 Specs – Vision, tool use, 262K context, priced at zero 01:57 The Hunt – Model "fingerprinting" fails to identify it 02:20 The Reveal – It's Pareto: multiple AI models merged into one answer 04:29 Benchmarks – Pareto vs. Fable, Astro & DeepSeek across 5 tests 05:31 The Pattern – Never wins outright, but never falls apart either 08:01 History Repeats – Past stealth launches: GPT-4.1, GPT-5, GLM5, GLM5.3 09:29 Who Built It – Ex-Stripe engineers behind Unbiased

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The third AI workshop taught by our legendary teacher, Nick Sarafa. In one of the last events we did an asset manager raised an additional Β£25M on their fund within a space of 9 months. This is a full-day hands-on training workshop for purposeful co-creation with AI using Claude Code. Imagine having access to hundreds of billions of dollars of computing power and knowing exactly how to make it work for you through the power of super intelligence. One person did.

β—† Fri 09 Oct 2026 β—† KOKO Cafe, London β—† With Nick Sarafa
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