Chinese AI models remained ahead of the U.S. in weekly large-model usage for the 19th consecutive week, according to calculations published by National Business Daily based on the latest OpenRouter data. For the week of Aug. 31 to Sept. 6, global AI model calls reached 115 trillion tokens, up 1.77% from the previous week. China accounted for 56.72 trillion tokens, a 2.83% weekly increase, while the U.S. logged 16.54 trillion tokens, down 3.1%.
Four of the top five models by usage were Chinese. Tencent Hunyuan Hy4 preview ranked first with 14.7 trillion tokens, posting a 379% week-over-week increase. GPT-5.6 Luna came in second at 12.9 trillion tokens, and Zhipu's GLM-5.3 Flash rose to third with 12.4 trillion tokens. DeepSeek-V4-Flash, in its official and preview versions, placed fourth and fifth. MiniMax M3 returned to the ranking after nearly a month and took sixth place. The report also said the model has become the foundation for HUMAIN's Arabic large language model in Saudi Arabia. Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.5 and Gemini 3.7 Flash fell out of the ranking during the week.
Chinese AI models extended their lead over U.S. peers for a 19th straight week, according to calculations published by National Business Daily using the latest OpenRouter data.
For the week of Aug. 31 to Sept. 6, total global AI large-model calls reached 115 trillion tokens, up 1.77% from the previous week. Chinese models accounted for 56.72 trillion tokens, a 2.83% increase week over week. U.S. models logged 16.54 trillion tokens, down 3.1%.
Chinese models took four of the global top five
Tencent Hunyuan Hy4 preview ranked first with 14.7 trillion tokens, after a 379% week-over-week increase. GPT-5.6 Luna placed second with 12.9 trillion tokens. Zhipu's GLM-5.3 Flash moved up to third with 12.4 trillion tokens.
DeepSeek-V4-Flash official and preview versions ranked fourth and fifth, leaving Chinese models with four spots in the global top five.
MiniMax M3 returned to the ranking
MiniMax M3 reentered the ranking after nearly a month and placed sixth. The report said it has become the foundation for HUMAIN's Arabic large language model in Saudi Arabia.
Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.5 and Gemini 3.7 Flash dropped out of the ranking this week.
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