OpenRouter weekly tokens surge 25,000% to 126.2 trillion — the AI bubble debate in one chart
The Decoder · rss · 2026-09-17
The Decoder reports that weekly token consumption on OpenRouter has surged more than 25,000% since January 2025, from 0.5 to 126.2 trillion tokens. The piece argues the staggering chart says less about actual AI usage than about token-hungry reasoning models and a growing fleet of unoptimized AI agents burning tokens — making it a single-image emblem of the AI bubble debate.
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