OpenAI and Anthropic earn 10 times more than all Chinese AI models combined, per Rhodium research.
OpenAI at roughly $40B in ARR and Anthropic at $65B, while ByteDance’s large-model business is about $4B and Alibaba’s Bailian MaaS about $2.3–$2.4B.
And the reason is, models from China are mostly open source. Chinese models recorded more than 2B Hugging Face downloads in 2025, or 41% of the platform total.
i.e. users can self-host them or access them through third parties without much revenue flowing back to the original developer.