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China’s MiniMax, Moonshot top AI token use ranking, ending year of US dominance

AI hosting platform OpenRouter’s latest ranking shows high demand for Chinese open-source models following a series of new releases

A token is the fundamental unit of data input – including whole words, parts of words, characters or punctuation marks – that an AI model processes to generate output.

MiniMax, Moonshot and DeepSeek accounted for nearly two thirds of the total token usage among the top five models ranked this month, according to OpenRouter.

Read original at South China Morning Post

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