
State of AI: 100 Trillion Token Usage and Dynamics
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What Massive Real-World Data Reveals About How We Actually Use AI
In this episode of the Colaberry AI Podcast, we dive into the “State of AI” report from OpenRouter and a16z, one of the most comprehensive empirical analyses of AI usage ever published—spanning over 100 trillion tokens of real-world interactions. This dataset provides an unprecedented look at how people and organizations truly use large language models, how the market is evolving, and which models are winning which workloads.
The report shows a dramatic shift since late 2024 toward multi-step deliberation…
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