AITechCrunchabout 1 hour ago
Open models overtake frontier AI in production
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Chinese open-weight models accounted for 41% of Hugging Face downloads this spring, surpassing U.S. models. On OpenRouter, the top six most popular models are from Chinese firms including Tencent, Xiaomi, DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Z.ai. Open models handled nearly a third of AI requests on Vercel in June, signaling a shift toward cheaper, customizable alternatives over frontier models.
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