OpenAI quietly lists three aurora alpha models in its API

Identifiers named aurora-red-alpha, aurora-green-alpha and aurora-blue-alpha surfaced with no documentation or official comment from OpenAI Three new model identifiers have appeared in the OpenAI API: aurora-red-alpha, aurora-green-alpha, and aurora-blue-alpha. OpenAI has not announced them, documented them, or explained what they do. The names were reported on October 18, 2026. They reached a wider audience through a post on X from AI researcher @scaling01. Three model IDs, all carrying the “aurora” prefix and an “alpha” suffix, are now listed in OpenAI’s developer interface. What’s missing is everything a developer would usually look for. No official commentary on capabilities has come from OpenAI. No changelog entry confirms their status. There is also no public pricing and no stated use case.

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