China's AI Model Call Volume Drops 23.8% Week-over-Week, U.S. Surpasses for First Time in Two Months

Gate News message, April 20 — According to OpenRouter data, global AI model call volumes totaled 206 trillion tokens last week (April 13-19), marking a second consecutive week of decline. China's AI models saw weekly call volumes drop to 444.1 trillion tokens, down 23.77% from the previous week, while U.S. AI models reached 490.8 trillion tokens, up 20.62% week-over-week. This marks the first time in two months that U.S. AI model call volumes have surpassed China's.

Among the top nine global AI models, four are Chinese. DeepSeek V3.2 ranked second with 1.28 trillion tokens in weekly calls. MiMo-V2-Pro ranked fourth with 1.15 trillion tokens, up 90% week-over-week. MiniMax had two models in the top nine: MiniMax M2.5 ranked sixth with 1.05 trillion tokens, while MiniMax M2.7 ranked seventh with 961 billion tokens, down 19% from the previous week.