China's AI large model usage surpasses the United States for two consecutive weeks! Mysterious model Hunter Alpha makes the list.

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16/03/2026
The journalist noticed that according to the latest data from OpenRouter, the weekly usage of Chinese AI large models on the list increased to 4.69 trillion Tokens last week, up 11.83% from the previous week; while the weekly usage of American AI large models was 3.294 trillion Tokens, a decrease of 9.33% compared to the previous week. The weekly usage of Chinese AI large models has surpassed that of the United States for two consecutive weeks. Last week, the top three in global usage were all Chinese AI large models. Among them, MiniMax M2.5 has been in the top spot for five consecutive weeks, with a weekly usage of 1.75 trillion Tokens, a decrease of 6%; Step 3.5 Flash, a newcomer to the top three, ranked second with a weekly usage of 1.34 trillion Tokens, an increase of 79%; DeepSeek V3.2 ranked third with a weekly usage of 1.04 trillion Tokens, an increase of 25%. It is worth noting that the mysterious model Hunter Alpha made the list, with a weekly usage of 0.666 trillion Tokens, ranking seventh. The model introduction on OpenRouter shows that Hunter Alpha went online on March 11th, and is specifically designed for intelligent applications, with over a trillion parameters and context of 1 million Tokens. It excels in long-term planning, complex reasoning, and continuous multi-step task execution, and possesses the reliability and precision of instruction execution required by frameworks like OpenClaw.