OSS models decisively overtook Proprietary models in market share (based on the last 3 months of OpenRouter data)
Summary
Based on OpenRouter data, open-source LLMs have overtaken proprietary models in token market share, shifting from a 60-40 split favoring proprietary to 60-40 favoring OSS in three months.
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