According to OpenRouter data measured by National Business Daily, global AI large-model total calls for the week of October 5–11 reached 172 trillion tokens, up 3.61% week on week. Chinese AI models logged 86.74 trillion tokens, up 50.96%, versus 18.97 trillion for US models, up 17.1% — China's weekly model calls have exceeded the US for 24 consecutive weeks, remaining firmly No. 1 globally.
All five of the world's most-called models last week were Chinese: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash ranked first with 41 trillion tokens, up 60%; Zhipu's GLM 5.3 Flash ranked second with 12.2 trillion, up 26%; Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Flash ranked third with 11.5 trillion, up 19%; StepFun's Step 5 Preview ranked fourth with 8.84 trillion; and Tencent's Hy4 preview ranked fifth with 8.28 trillion, up 27%.
Step 5 Preview, officially released on September 20 and launched on OpenRouter on October 8, is a flagship base model for real-world agentic tasks. It uses a sparse mixture-of-experts architecture with 600 billion total parameters and 27 billion activated per token, supports a 1M-token context window and visual input, and demonstrates frontier-level capability in AI programming, software engineering and professional knowledge work — with particularly strong performance in finance.
Source: National Business Daily / OpenRouter
