Beyond model capability, China's open-model lead is becoming a distribution advantage:
Qwen hit 942M Hugging Face downloads, more than the next eight organizations combined, while Chinese open-weight models rose from under 2% to over 45% of OpenRouter tokens.
Mozilla also cites DeepSeek appearing in 58% of new AI-startup stacks
Mozilla just published a 91-page report and it says open-weight AI is now only about 4 months behind the frontier. - 8 of OpenRouter's 10 most-used models by Au...