TechFlow News, April 20: According to the latest data from OpenRouter, global AI large model token usage totaled 20.6 trillion tokens for the week of April 13–19—a decline for the second consecutive week. Among the ranked AI large models, weekly token usage for Chinese AI large models fell to 4.441 trillion tokens—also down for the second consecutive week—and declined by 23.77% compared to the prior week. In contrast, weekly token usage for U.S. AI large models reached 4.908 trillion tokens, rising 20.62% week-on-week.
U.S. AI large models’ weekly token usage surpassed China’s for the first time in the past two months. Among the top nine models globally by weekly token usage last week, four were Chinese AI large models: DeepSeek V3.2 ranked second with 1.28 trillion tokens; MiMo-V2-Pro ranked fourth with 1.15 trillion tokens—a 90% week-on-week increase; MiniMax’s two models also made the list—MiniMax M2.5 ranked sixth with 1.05 trillion tokens, and MiniMax M2.7 ranked seventh with 0.961 trillion tokens, down 19% week-on-week. (Jin10)
