Chinese AI models are gaining ground with U.S. companies as OpenAI, Anthropic costs surge

Recent model releases from Chinese companies including DeepSeek and Z.ai are seen by many as highly competitive compared to ...

Z.ai launches ZCode to challenge Cursor, Claude Code and GitHub Copilot in AI coding

Z.ai has launched ZCode, a free AI coding tool powered by GLM-5.2 that challenges Cursor, Claude Code and GitHub Copilot ...

Meituan open sources LongCat-2.0, the 1.6T, near-frontier agentic coding model that's been leading OpenRouter — trained entirely on Chinese chips

By registering the LongCat-2.0 repository under the open-source MIT License, Meituan positions the architecture with maximum ...
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Chinese AI Models Lead OpenRouter Traffic: Coding Gains Come With China Data Risk

Three days after OpenRouter raised a $113 million Series B and disclosed that weekly traffic on its platform had reached 25 trillion tokens — five times higher than six months earlier — the most ...
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This new 'Fusion' AI beats Claude Fable 5 — here's how to use it (OpenRouter Fusion tutorial)

A tutorial exploring OpenRouter Fusion, a new AI model-fusion system that combines responses from multiple models to create ...
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OpenRouter more than doubles valuation to $1.3B in a year

Popular AI gateway maker OpenRouter, founded in 2023, has raised a hefty $113 million Series B led by CapitalG, the growth venture fund of Google parent company Alphabet. While the startup didn’t ...
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OpenRouter raises $113M to bring order to enterprise AI inference routing

Artificial intelligence inference routing startup OpenRouter Inc. today announced it has raised $113 million in new funding led by CapitalG, Alphabet Inc.’s independent growth fund, to push the ...