The trend is clear: open-weight models are taking an increasingly large bite out of production AI usage. On Monday, The New Stack reported that open-weight models accounted for 60% of OpenRouter’s US token consumption in August, with Chinese-developed models making up the majority of that volume. The latest data point hails from Vercel , whose AI Gateway routes tens of trillions of tokens each month across the applications running on its infrastructure. As per Vercel’s September report , published on Thursday and covering activity through August, open-weight models handled 56% of all tokens...

Source: The New Stack