[simonw]

> Since the start of the year, Chinese AI models have overtaken their US counterparts in token consumption, according to data from OpenRouter, an aggregation platform that allows users to access multiple AI models.

That's a bit of a dodgy statistic. OpenRouter only tracks their own users - the vast majority of API customers for OpenAI and Anthropic presumably go straight to their APIs.

[anon373839]

It's true that OpenRouter may be a biased sample - however, do we have reason to think that isn't a relatively stable biased sample? If not, then the trendline in OpenRouter usage is still pretty interesting.

[marc_g]

As someone who went straight to deepseeks API, I wouldn't be surprised if this trend exists outside of Openrouter.