State of AI | OpenRouter

kept by eddie dec 05, 25

An empirical study of over 100 trillion LLM tokens on OpenRouter reveals rising open-weight adoption, dominant roleplay and coding tasks, and a 'Glass Slipper' retention effect.

8 plots that explain the state of open models
Qwen dominates open-model downloads and finetunes globally, while DeepSeek leads in large-scale models and GPT-OSS is the only Western contender gaining adoption.
also on Mistral AI, Qwen, DeepSeek, Meta, OpenAI, #open-source, #developer-tools
Mistral AI Releases Forge
Mistral AI's Forge allows enterprises to train frontier-grade AI models on their proprietary data, partnering with organizations like ASML and ESA.
also on Mistral AI
No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user - Martin Alderson
The viral claim that Anthropic loses $5,000 per Claude Code Max subscriber confuses retail API prices with actual inference costs, which are roughly 10x lower.
also on OpenRouter, Qwen, #ai-research, #ai-coding, #developer-tools
LLM Rankings | OpenRouter
OpenRouter ranks live LLM usage by tokens and spend, showing DeepSeek, Anthropic, and others dominating across general, agent, and code tasks.
also on OpenRouter, DeepSeek, OpenAI, #developer-tools
AI infrastructure in the "Era of experience"
As open-source LLMs commoditize due to fierce Chinese competition, companies can build defensible moats through custom RL models trained on proprietary environments using LoRA and GRPO.
also on Qwen, DeepSeek, #ai-research, #open-source