Open models cut proprietary share of OpenRouter queries from 60% to 25% in months
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-11
- Citing an FT piece and OpenRouter routing data: proprietary models' share of routed queries fell from roughly 60% to 25% within months.
- OpenRouter directs each request to the lowest-cost model expected to be adequate, so open-weight models gain usage without customers manually choosing them.
- AT&T is shifting a rapidly growing share of its AI work to cheaper open models, reporting up to 80% cost savings.
- If other large enterprises follow, OpenAI and Anthropic could lose much of the routine enterprise usage they currently monetize.
- Zuckerberg: most businesses won't own frontier AI, but many will build a customized operational AI layer reflecting how their company actually works.
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