Overseas Developers Turn to Chinese AI Models to Reduce Costs

By: rootdata|2026/07/08 04:20:46

As the cost of using AI rises, an increasing number of overseas startups and developers are adopting Chinese AI models such as DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Moonshot AI to lower inference costs. Data shows that the AI traffic share of DeepSeek on the cloud platform Vercel has increased from less than 1% in May this year to 17%. The AI model aggregation platform OpenRouter indicates that DeepSeek's usage will double in the first half of 2026, making it the most popular model on the platform. Meanwhile, the token usage share of Chinese open-source models from Xiaomi, MiniMax, and Tencent continues to rise, while the shares of Google and OpenAI have declined.

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