Tech Tonic | Big AI keeps making the same mistake about Chinese AI companies

Chinese AI models consistently top usage leaderboards, with Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.5 leading at 9.77 trillion tokens on OpenRouter.

In the top 10 OpenRouter models, the only US entry is Nvidia Nemotron 3 Ultra Free at 2.7 trillion tokens.

Beijing spent years building conditions for Chinese AI dominance, anticipating the AI era early.

Z-ai's GLM-5.2 leads security audit tasks with 21.3% token usage, surpassing Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 at 10.8%.

Google leads market share with 27% token usage, followed by DeepSeek at 25.4%, while OpenAI has 14.5%.