
Chinese Models Claim 60% of OpenRouter Token Traffic
Chinese AI providers now handle over 60% of all tokens routed through OpenRouter, up from less than 2% just a year ago.
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Chinese AI providers now handle over 60% of all tokens routed through OpenRouter, up from less than 2% just a year ago.

Trump and Xi announced plans for a formal AI safety channel at their Beijing summit, but expert skepticism and stalled chip deals complicate the picture.

The EU Parliament and Council agreed on May 7 to delay high-risk AI compliance to December 2027, add a nudifier app ban, and give the machinery sector a permanent carve-out.

Moonshot AI closed a $2B round at a $20B valuation, four-times its end-2025 value, on the strength of its Kimi open-weight models and $200M ARR.

China's state semiconductor fund is leading DeepSeek's first-ever VC raise at a $45B valuation, signaling a strategic shift from chip investment to backing AI model labs directly.

Bernstein projects Nvidia's China AI chip share falls from 66% to 8% in 2026 while Huawei targets $12B in revenue, with ByteDance alone committing $5.6B in Ascend 950PR orders.

China's NDRC ordered Meta to reverse its $2B Manus acquisition and barred the startup's founders from leaving China, ending the 'Singapore washing' strategy that let Chinese AI firms dodge Beijing oversight.

Singapore FM Vivian Balakrishnan published his personal AI architecture - a Raspberry Pi second brain connecting WhatsApp, Gmail, and a persistent knowledge graph.

Cohere acquires Germany's Aleph Alpha at a $20B combined valuation, backed by a €500M Schwarz Group commitment, to build a transatlantic challenger for sovereign enterprise AI.

DeepSeek releases V4 Flash and V4 Pro with frontier-class benchmarks at prices 7-9x below OpenAI and Anthropic, built entirely on Huawei Ascend chips.

NEC becomes Anthropic's first Japan-based global partner, giving 30,000 employees Claude access to build what both companies call Japan's largest AI-native engineering organization.

DeepSeek V4 has slipped three times since February. Jensen Huang called it a horrible outcome for America. Here is what is actually hard about running a trillion-parameter model on Huawei's CANN framework.