OpenRouter data: lower-cost Chinese AI models made by companies such as DeepSeek and MiniMax have overtaken their US rivals in token consumption since February
A mystery 1T-parameter AI model called Hunter Alpha, which appeared on OpenRouter on March 11, sparks speculation that DeepSeek is quietly testing its V4 model
A powerful artificial intelligence model that appeared anonymously on a developer platform last week has sparked speculation …
Source: Chinese AI startup Zhipu anonymously released its new AI model GLM-5 on OpenRouter under the name Pony Alpha; Zhipu plans to debut GLM-5 later this week
Zhipu, one of China's prominent AI developers, has anonymously released its new large language model under a different name on OpenRouter …
Xiaomi releases MiMo-V2-Flash, an open-weight MoE model with 309B total and 15B active parameters, saying it excels in reasoning, coding, and agentic scenarios
improve math, break coding. Enhance reasoning, hurt safety. ✅ Solution: Train specialized expert [image] Elie / @eliebakouch : wow, this looks like a very solid open model by Xiaomi, competing with K2...
An analysis of 100T+ tokens from the past year shows reasoning models now represent over half of all usage, open-weight model use has grown steadily, and more
this is not a model I hear much about. [image] @openrouterai : We collaborated with @a16z to publish the **State of AI** - an empirical report on how LLMs have been used on OpenRouter. After analyzing...
An analysis of 100T+ tokens from the past year shows reasoning models now represent over half of all usage, open-weight model use has grown steadily, and more
An Empirical 100 Trillion Token Study with OpenRouter — Malika Aubakirova*Alex Atallah†Chris Clark†Justin Summerville†Anjney Midha*
Z.ai, formerly known as Zhipu and that has raised $1.5B from Tencent and others, releases GLM-4.5, an open-source AI model that it says is cheaper than DeepSeek
chinese models really are taking over huh Simon Willison / @simonwillison.net : Pretty decent pelicans from the new GLM-4.5 and GLM-4.5 Air models. Both models are MIT licensed, released by Chinese A...
OpenRouter, which directs prompts to LLMs based on factors like cost and speed, raised $40M across a seed and Series A; source: the startup is valued at ~$500M
The startup, now valued at about $500 million, directs artificial-intelligence prompts to various large language models based on cost, speed and other factors LinkedIn: Chris Clark LinkedIn: Chris Cla...