OpenRouter hype debunked: Chinese OSS models hot, but enterprise demand still belongs to big three
brandon_galang · x · 2026-10-28
Reacting to claims that Chinese open-source models (DeepSeek at #1 and #2) are eating frontier demand on OpenRouter, Brandon Galang argues OpenRouter traffic doesn't represent the lion's share of hyperscaler demand or the full enterprise picture, where Anthropic, OpenAI and Google remain dominant.
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