Cheaper Chinese AI models overtake US rivals in developer usage

AI Summary OpenRouter, the aggregation platform that routes developers’ API calls across dozens of AI systems, reports that open-weight models built by Chinese labs now run more than three times the weekly token volume of American models. The reason is because Chinese models that are nearly equivalent to their U.S. counterparts cost a fraction as much. Price... fulltext: 358 chars | fulltext source: rss-fallback | summary method: extractive Original: https://www.cryptopolitan.com/chinese-ai-models-popularity-us-lose-ground/ Source: CryptoPolitan