According to Tencent News on September 15, OpenRouter data show that in the week of September 7–13 global large-model calls reached 127 trillion Tokens, up 10.43% week on week. China's weekly call volume hit 61.17 trillion Tokens (+7.85%), while the US reached 21.76 trillion (+31.56%). China has led the US for 20 consecutive weeks, holding the global top spot.
Four of the global top five models are Chinese: Tencent Hunyuan Hy4 preview (#2, 16.8T, +15%), Zhipu GLM5.3 Flash (#3), DeepSeek V4 Flash (#4) and Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5 (#5, +230%). DeepSeek V4.1 Flash climbed to #6 within three days of release (4.94T). The reshuffle— MiMo's explosive growth and two well-known models dropping off the list—shows developer-ecosystem migration is faster than expected.
The combination of "Chinese models topping the charts + a price war" keeps squeezing the global API share of overseas closed-source models.
Source: Tencent News / National Business Daily
