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ai morning #24 — chinese models now own the openrouter top
Four Chinese-origin open-weight models now hold the top six usage slots on OpenRouter — the platform where builders route real production tokens. Tencent's Hy3 claimed number one with 6.13 trillion tokens processed. This isn't a benchmark. It's builders voting with their API calls.
Marcus walks through what happened, why the token data makes Hy3's rise impossible to dismiss as hype, and what it means for builders still defaulting to last quarter's model stack.
In this episode:
00:00 Intro
01:24 Hy3 #1 on OpenRouter — China sweeps top — Tencent's 295B open-weight model claims the number-one…
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