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Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) technology companies are gaining a growing foothold among international users, with their models topping rankings on some leading industry platforms, ahead of their US counterparts.
Chinese AI companies, with their open-source strategies and cost effectiveness, are gaining growing adoption among overseas developers despite the continued US restrictions on China's access to advanced chips and AI technologies, a Chinese veteran industry analyst said, noting that global AI competition should be about innovation capabilities and the ability to build attractive ecosystems, rather than about who can erect higher technological barriers.
The latest weekly large-language model (LLM) rankings from AI model aggregation platform OpenRouter showed that models developed by Chinese companies swept the top four spots and took six of the top 10, the Global Times noted on the platform on Tuesday. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 topped the ranking with 9.39 trillion tokens in usage, followed closely by Tencent's Hy3 with 8.94 trillion.
From August 3 to Sunday, Chinese AI models recorded 34.25 trillion tokens in usage, up 21.76 percent from the previous week, while US AI models, although up 109.36 percent, only recorded 9.17 trillion tokens, about three times less than that of Chinese models.
Another DeepSeek model, V4 Flash 0423, came in third, followed by Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.5 in fourth place. Zhipu AI's GLM 5.2 and DeepSeek V4 Pro also made the top 10.
Notably, usage of the top-ranked DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 surged 302 percent over the week. The rankings are based on actual model usage on OpenRouter, highlighting the growing adoption of Chinese AI models among global developers and their strong presence on the platform, Xiang Ligang, director-general of the Zhongguancun Modern Information Consumer Application Industry Technology Alliance, told the Global Times on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the latest trending rankings on Hugging Face, the world's largest open-source AI community, also highlighted the growing influence of Chinese AI models among global developers. As of Tuesday, four of the top five models on the platform's Trending Models list were linked to Chinese AI companies, with MiniMax's newly released full modality model MiniMax H3 topping the ranking.
One key reason Chinese AI models are gaining popularity is their combination of strong performance, lower costs and greater openness, Chinese experts said.
"Companies such as DeepSeek, MiniMax and Zhipu AI have released open-weight models that developers can download, customize and use to build their own applications. Many Chinese models also come with relatively low API and inference costs, making them more affordable for start-ups and smaller businesses," Xiang said.
According to UBS estimates cited by media reports, leading Chinese AI models cost about one-tenth as much to train as comparable overseas models, while their API prices are typically only 10 percent to 20 percent of those of foreign alternatives.
"China's strong industrial foundation in power supply, computing infrastructure and data center development also provides solid support for the large-scale deployment of AI," said Xiang.
In contrast to many large US AI companies that primarily offer their flagship models through closed platforms and application programming interfaces, China's are gaining traction among global developers with its open model approach, Ma Jihua, a veteran industry analyst, told the Global Times on Tuesday.
The open model approach allows a much broader range of developers, including smaller players, to participate in AI development rather than leaving advanced AI capabilities concentrated in the hands of a few large companies, said Ma. As more developers build on these models, they can create new tools and applications, further expanding the ecosystem around Chinese AI models, Ma added.
China's recently released Action Plan for Global AI Governance explicitly encourages the joint development of international open-source AI communities, greater international exchanges and cooperation among open-source communities, and the sharing of general purpose large models, foundational algorithms and software tools.
Recently, the US government has ramped up its unilateral moves targeting China's AI-related sector, including a plan to ban cutting-edge Chinese AI models, US media outlets have reported.
The growing influence of Chinese AI models shows that technological blockades cannot hold back innovation and industrial development, Ma said, noting that such restrictions could instead backfire by raising costs for US companies and limiting their access to competitive technologies and global AI cooperation.
Chinese AI models are already seeing growing adoption among US businesses. Chinese AI models now consistently account for more than 30 percent of weekly token usage by US companies, with the share peaking at 46 percent, the People's Daily reported, citing data from a third party industry platform.
The US should view the development of China's AI industry objectively, and avoid politicizing or overstretching the concept of national security in normal technological and industrial competition, Ma said. 
"After all, global AI competition should ultimately be about innovation and the ability to build attractive ecosystems, rather than about who can erect higher technological barriers," Ma noted.
。    박현주 미래에셋그룹 회장이 26일 서울 포시즌즈호텔에서 사진 가상자산 거래소 ‘코빗’ 운영 업체 디지털엑스 임직원들과의 만찬에서 발언을 하고 있다. 뉴시스박현주 미래에셋그룹 회장 겸 글로벌전략가(GSO)가 최근 인수를 마무리한 가상자산 거래소 ‘코빗’의 운영 업체 디지털엑스 임직원들과 만찬을 진행했다. 이 자리에서 박 회장은 부동산과 가상자산, 원화 스테이블코인, 주주환원 등 주요 현안에 대해 거침없이 말했다. 박 회장은 26일 서울 종로구 포시즌스호텔에서 디지털엑스 전체 임직원들과 만찬 자리를 가졌다. 미래에셋그룹이 지난달 디지털엑스 경영권을 확보한 뒤 박 회장과 디지털엑스 임직원들이 공식적인 자리를 가진 건 이번이 처음이다.박 회장은 “부동산으로 돈 버는 시대는 끝나야 한다. 모두를 위해서 끝나야 한다”며 “그래야 젊은 세대가 복지를 느끼면서 살 수 있다”고 강조했다. 그러면서 최근 정부의 세제 정책에 대해 “장난이 아니라고 생각된다”며 “지금 주택 문제도 해결될 가능성이 있다고 본다”고 덧붙였다.박 회장은 삼성전자, SK하이닉스의 주가가 주주환원을 못 해서 내려간다는 일각의 지적에 대해 “허접한 얘기”라고 일축했다. 그는 그러면서 “배당을 많이 했으면 삼성전자, SK하이닉스가 생겨났겠냐”며 “배당을 안 해야 회사가 좋아지는 것이다. 자본 축적으로 과감히 키워야 한다”고 강조했다.박 회장은 가상자산 투자와 관련해 “비트코인에 투자해 돈 번 사람이 거의 없다. 거의 패가망신 수준”이라며 “거기다 대출까지 받아 가면서 왜 하는지 모르겠다”고 지적했다. 그는 또 “주식도 그렇게 하면 안 된다. 모든 자산은 그런 방식으로 거래하면 안 된다”고 거듭 강조했다.박 회장은 친(親) 가상자산 정책을 내걸은 도널드 트럼프 미국 대통령을 비판하기도 했다. 그는 “주식 파는 미래에셋 회장도 그렇게 안 하는데 어떻게 날마다 주식을 매매하나“라며 “트럼프 대통령은 참 이해가 안 되는 양반이다. 흉악하게도 가상자산 담당자들과 모여 파티를 하더라”고 말했다. 그러면서 “정치가 어떤 자산에 개입했다, 이건 굉장히 위험한 것”이라 지적했다. 당정이 추진 중인 원화 스테이블코인에 대해서는 잘 될지 의문이라는 입장을 밝혔다. 박 회장은 “원화 스테이블코인이 굉장히 잘 될까? 저는 의문”이라며 “달러 스테이블코인은 달러 수요 때문에 갖고 있을 수 있겠다”고 했다.。