OpenRouter drops usage report at SF Tech Week: open-weight models surge
Tiancaixinxin · x · 2026-10-08
OpenRouter, the largest AI gateway and marketplace, released a usage report at SF Tech Week. Tiancai Xinxin thread-summarizes the takeaways: open-weight model share climbing, agentic traffic overtaking human traffic, and per-token blended costs collapsing (details in the follow-up posts).
Related event: OpenRouter Report: Open-Source Models Hit 60% Share, Chinese Models ~70%(5 posts)→
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