Open Source AI Token Share Surges to 62% on Vercel
daniel_mac8 · x · 2026-08-23
Data from Vercel indicates that the token share of open-source AI has surged from 28% to 62% over the last two months. This growth is even more impressive given that the combined usage of OpenAI and Anthropic accelerated in July. The author questions if US frontier labs might release less-than-frontier open-source models strategically, primarily to block competition from Chinese open-source models, with the side effect of solving data governance issues for enterprises.
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