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On October 18, developers found three unfamiliar models, aurora-red-alpha, aurora-green-alpha, and aurora-blue-alpha, in a third-party-maintained mirror of the OpenAI model list; the entries then disappeared from the list, and their purpose and whether they will be released remain unknown.