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Comparison of monthly token volume shares by model author between January 2026 and June 2026, as of June 14th.
An analysis of OpenRouter data shows that US and Chinese companies train nearly all of the world's most-used AI models, with Chinese models rapidly increasing to 20 out of the top 50 by May 2026.
When several AI models were priced equally for a week, actual token usage revealed preference differences from leaderboard rankings, showing that coding and general chat have different top models and long context usage concentrated on two trusted models.