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What changed, and what is the evidence.
Oct 12, 2026 · Post · posted
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$NBIS $SNDK $MU $LITE $AAOI Token demand just keeps going vertical. OpenRouter routed 379 trillion tokens in August, up from 15T a year ago. That’s 25x in twelve months. The jump from July to August added 131T tokens in a single month,… |
a16z's chart made the crossover visible: agent token use passed human token use on OpenRouter back in February, and by August agents were burning 7.3 trillion tokens against 1.4 trillion for humans, roughly five times over. Futurum's… |
Kubernetes won the container decade by scheduling processes that run for seconds or minutes. Agents do not work like that, and Google just open sourced the runtime built for the difference. Jaana Dogan's team shipped Agent Substrate this… |
Jon Cipher is right about the structural shift here. The OpenRouter data tells a clear story. Chinese models took the lead in OpenRouter token share in March and kept it. Not because they win every benchmark. Because restricted compute… |
OpenRouter just published a data point I keep coming back to: for the first time in 2.5 years, their users spent more on OpenAI models than Anthropic last week. Anthropic's share on OpenRouter has fallen from 25% to 12% this year.… |
Token usage is exploding and the amount of compute needed to keep up is getting ridiculous (Save this). The Evercore ISI chart shows annual token usage rising from almost nothing in 2024 to roughly 4,000 quadrillion tokens per year by… |
The inference cost gap between centralized APIs and decentralized GPU networks is getting hard to ignore. Qwen3.6 35B running at 14,499 tokens per second on a single B200 GPU on Lium. 85% cheaper than the same model on Openrouter. That… |
Token usage just went vertical, and the power grid is not ready for it (Save this). This chart shows that agentic token usage on OpenRouter rose from roughly 0.51 trillion tokens on February to about 7.3 trillion by Augustwhich is a… |
Silicon Valley is having its biggest shopping spree in history 🛒 💰 Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $12.9B 🤖 SoftBank circling humanoid maker 1X at $6B ⚡ Cursor at $60B, OpenRouter ~$8B, Decart $6B+ The pattern: nobody is buying revenue.… |