Rohan Paul

DeepSeek broke Google's 51-week grip on OpenRouter's request lead, after its weekly requests grew 12.6× in under a year and reached about 1.01 bn in the week it first took #1. More interestingly, is how fluid this demand is: after DeepSeek repriced, its weekly requests slipped by about 20 mn while http://Z.ai gained roughly 195 million. i.e. no stickyness in this business, devs are choosing among Chinese open models on economics and capability rather than staying loyal to one provider.