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How Chinese Models Actually Took Over OpenRouter, Month by Month
Two numbers—1.2% and 46%—capture the same 18-month rise of Chinese open-weight models on OpenRouter, but each reflects different evidence. This month-...

Two numbers—1.2% and 46%—capture the same 18-month rise of Chinese open-weight models on OpenRouter, but each reflects different evidence. This month-...

Chinese open-weight models like DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi, and Qwen now account for 30-46% of US company traffic on OpenRouter, and up to 61% in narrower sl...