China's Large Models Weekly Token Usage Surpasses US Again, Taking 3 Spots in Global Top 5

OpenRouter's latest monitoring data shows that from March 2 to 8, China's large models had a weekly token usage of 4.19 trillion, up 34.9% week-on-week; the US had 3.63 trillion tokens, down 8.5% over the same period. This is the second consecutive week China's large model usage has surpassed the US. Among the top 5 global models by weekly usage, three are Chinese products. MiniMax's M2.5 retained the top spot with 1.87 trillion tokens (15% increase), DeepSeek V3.2 ranked third with 0.83 trillion (4% rise), and Step3.5 Flash from Step Star jumped to fifth place with 0.75 trillion tokens (69% surge). Kimi K2.5 dropped to sixth this week.