Earning Real Money: The Coming-of-Age of China's AI Unicorns

The article analyzes how Chinese AI companies are shifting from competing on API call volume to competing on real revenue. OpenRouter data shows that in the week of October 5 to 11, the top five models worldwide by call volume were all from Chinese companies, and Chinese models consumed 86.74 trillion tokens in one week, 4.5 times that of the United States.