OpenRouter in the Media
21 mentions across press, blogs, and newsletters
February 2026
Upgrading agentic AI for finance workflows
Improving trust in agentic AI for finance workflows remains a major priority for technology leaders today. Over the past two years, enterprises have rushed to put automated agents into real workflows, spanning customer support and back-office operations. These tools excel at retrieving informatio
Pantera, Franklin Templeton join Sentient Arena to test AI agents
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Benioff Wears the Jacket. Perplexity Plays the Broker.
Salesforce beat Q4 estimates, stock fell 5%. Perplexity launches Computer with 19 AI models at $200/month. Software stocks down $1.6T.
China’s MiniMax, Moonshot top AI token use ranking, ending year of US dominance
Chinese open-source artificial intelligence models, led by those from MiniMax AI and Moonshot AI, have topped global token usage, ending a year of market dominance for US developers, according to data from OpenRouter. Online AI hosting platform OpenRouter’s latest ranking reflected the increased int
Chinese AI models hit 61% market share on OpenRouter
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Google Exec Warns AI Wrapper Startups Could Be in Trouble
A Google executive is warning that two popular types of AI startups could be in trouble. Darren Mowry, who heads Google’s global startup organization, told TechCrunch in an interview published Saturday (Feb. 21) that companies built around LLM wrappers and AI aggregators have their “check engine
Google VP warns that two types of AI startups may not survive
As generative AI evolves, a Google VP warns that LLM wrappers and AI aggregators face mounting pressure, with shrinking margins and limited differentiation threatening their long-term viability.
Google VP warns that two types of AI startups may not survive
As generative AI evolves, a Google VP warns that LLM wrappers and AI aggregators face mounting pressure, with shrinking margins and limited differentiation threatening their long-term viability.
The Real Data on AI Agents: What 1 Trillion Tokens a Day Reveals with OpenRouter’s COO
Chris Clark, Co-Founder and COO of Open Router, sits at one of the most unique vantage points in AI — running the world’s largest AI gateway, processing over a trillion tokens per day across 70+ providers. Here’s what he’s actually seeing in the data. If you want to know whether AI
U.S. plans Peace Corps-style “Tech Corps” to counter China’s AI exports
Washington to send volunteers abroad to promote American AI models as Chinese open-weight models are proving popular.
I asked the Portal One+ Telegram AI assistant to review itself. Here’s how it went
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Secure networking startup Tailscale launches identity-linked governance for AI tools and agents
Tailscale Inc., a startup that helps enterprises establish secure network connections, today announced Aperture in open alpha mode to offer centralized policy control and auditability for artificial intelligence agents to reduce data leakage. In the fast-moving world of AI, where usage is increas
Alibaba Qwen is challenging proprietary AI model economics
The release of Alibaba’s latest Qwen model challenges proprietary AI model economics with comparable performance on commodity hardware. While US-based labs have historically held the performance advantage, open-source alternatives like the Qwen 3.5 series are closing the gap with frontier m
Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents
Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents Alibaba's Qwen just released the first two models in the Qwen 3.5 series - one open weights, one proprietary. Both are multi-modal for vision input. The open weight one is a Mixture
NVIDIA new chips to cut costs by 35x as coding tools grab half of AI related searches
NVIDIA just put out on its newest GB300 NVL72 systems. They can handle 50 times more work per megawatt of electricity compared to the older Hopper platform. That means costs drop by 35 times for each piece of information processed. Signal65 did separate testing on the GB200 NVL72 and found it proces
New Data Shows NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra Delivers up to 50x Better Performance and 35x Lower Costs for Agentic AI
The NVIDIA Blackwell platform has been widely adopted by leading inference providers such as Baseten, DeepInfra, Fireworks AI and Together AI to reduce cost per token by up to 10x. Now, the NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra platform is taking this momentum further for agentic AI. AI agents and coding assistant
Zhipu AI Releases GLM-5: 744B Model Rivals Claude Opus
Zhipu AI has released GLM-5, a 744-billion-parameter model trained
What’s next for Chinese open-source AI
The past year has marked a turning point for Chinese AI. Since DeepSeek released its R1 reasoning model in January 2025, Chinese companies have repeatedly delivered AI models that match the performance of leading Western models at a fraction of the cost.  Just last week the Chinese firm Moonsho
z.ai's open source GLM-5 achieves record low hallucination rate and leverages new RL 'slime' technique
Chinese AI startup Zhupai aka z.ai is back this week with an eye-popping new frontier large language model: GLM-5.The latest in z.ai's ongoing and continually impressive GLM series, it retains an open source MIT License —
GLM-5: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering
GLM-5: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering This is a huge new MIT-licensed model: 754B parameters and 1.51TB on Hugging Face twice the size of <a href="https://huggingface.co
China’s AI industry looks unstoppable in the race to best US rivals. But is it?
When China’s biggest artificial intelligence players gathered for a landmark meeting in Beijing in January, one question was in the spotlight: What are the chances of a Chinese AI firm overtaking US frontrunners in the next three to five years? The answer from a top AI scientist present at the gath