OpenRouter is the leading place to go to to get general purpose models of all sorts. It's fairly popular, and processes tens of trillions of tokens a year.
OpenRouter is valued at >$500m and processes >$100m/year, 5% of which goes to them. Not that large compared to e.g. OpenAI, but it's the largest that doesn't produce its own models & with the largest selection I'm aware of.
The number of tokens seen per model on OpenRouter is not a good measure of quality.
There are so many plausible explanations for why a particular model is or is not ranked in the top 10 by this metric.
Maybe people using OpenAI models are so happy that they don't care about other models and have no need for OpenRouter. Maybe OpenAI models produce fewer tokens, or are more expensive per token.
Your conclusion might be correct, but citing the number of tokens seen by OpenRouter is not very strong evidence.
ChatGPT has 100x more interest on google trends than Gemini and OpenRouter combined, which in the context of this article is a much more relevant "popularity score".
But I don't think either are very meaningful when there are actual benchmarks to measure the quality of models on specific tasks.
The number of projects accessing OpenAI directly, who might only reach for OpenRouter once an alternative is desired, is unknowable (since OpenAI doesn't share usage statistics), but likely meaningful.
I am having some difficulties with it where it kept getting stuck on earlier chat and had to delete previous msgs on openrouter for it to continue.
It surprised me with its technical stack understanding of complex startups and business understanding.
whereas Claude looks up too much from web and then thinks and possibly gets influenced too much on whats there on web.
Meanwhile on wall street, one sane analyst were pegging a valuation of $424 billion for robotaxis and ARK invest projected $240 billion in ebitda for robotaxis.
This is the worst privacy violation and breach of trust apple users have faced. A poster described that he wiped his Ipad clean before selling it.
Now the pictures come back alive for new owner. [1]
If that turns out to be true, the question is where are the restored pictures and videos coming from?
If the device has been wiped, then it probably isn't coming from iCloud. This would still support people's claims that the files are returning to both the device and iCloud, because their device is probably just backing the files back up again when it resurfaces.
So the files are probably not actually being deleted from the device, despite the appearance that they are, and the process of wiping the device would have to leave that data behind, unencrypted, if it is going to resurface for the next user.
People with pre-17.5 iOS devices should inspect their phones storage as root before and after and try to find old deleted media, and verify the behavior. That would be the smoking gun here.
Or, for some reason, iCloud remains connected to the device post-wipe in a way that it shouldn't and somehow sends old deleted files back to the device (I find this unlikely).
Or, this singular claim of an iOS device resurfacing deleted images after a wipe is a work of clout-seeking fiction, and the problem is limited only to a failure to fully delete files.
Thats a weekly metric on https://openrouter.ai/rankings flagship chatgpt 5.2 model is at #16
PMF is now evolving when competitor models are either smarter or cheaper.
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