Chinese open models now account for as much as 46% of tokens routed through OpenRouter by US firms, up from an 11% average, as American model prices climb.
https://www.resultsense.com/news/2026-07-07-chinese-ai-models-us-adoption-surge/Open linkView original on lemmy.ml
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China can keep prices down for far longer than US corporations can remain solvent.
Also, given that electricity costs in China are like a third of what they are in the US, it's fundamentally cheaper for Chinese companies to operate.
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