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r/LocalLLaMA · Sep 22, 2026, 11:02 PM EDT
Nathan Lambert's written Congressional testimony on the state of open models - Chinese open-weight downloads now 2x America's, >80% of OpenRouter open-model usage
Chinese open-weight models now out-download American ones two-to-one, so teams building on open models increasingly rely on Chinese labs for near-frontier capability.
The Decoder · Aug 17, 2026, 3:12 AM EDT
Stripe is reportedly acquiring AI startup OpenRouter for more than $7 billion
Stripe's reported $7 billion-plus purchase of OpenRouter would put the payments company in control of a gateway routing to over 400 AI models.