{"title":"Chinese Models’ ‘Majority Share’: Tokens, Requests or Spending?","description":"The supplied evidence cannot establish August shares for Chinese-origin models on any of the three Vercel measures. Vercel’s published token and spend figures classify open-weight models, which is a different category.","dataset_id":"spd:chinese-models-majority-share-tokens-requests-or-spending-60e7a128","canonical_url":"https://superpowerdaily.com/research/chinese-models-majority-share-tokens-requests-or-spending-60e7a128","version_url":"https://superpowerdaily.com/research/chinese-models-majority-share-tokens-requests-or-spending-60e7a128","version":"v1","snapshot_hash":"0e8c4fa340f8bde919811573d005f744b974c631de3b728df4c3ba28ab876d05","date_created":"2026-09-26T21:56:48.996Z","date_modified":"2026-09-26T21:56:48.996Z","license":{"name":"Superpower Daily data reuse terms","url":"https://superpowerdaily.com/terms"},"license_url":"https://superpowerdaily.com/terms","temporal_coverage":"2025-12-01/2026-08-01","coverage_note":"The saved Vercel text-lab export ends within July 29; no August rows were extracted for this ledger. No authenticated August OpenRouter rankings-daily response was obtained. The chart therefore shows only Vercel’s published August open-weight figures, not the proposed Chinese-origin ledger.","measurement_technique":["Preserved the collection-context cutoff of September 26, 2026, 15:30:47 UTC. Recovering the saved evidence is not a new collection or experiment.","Separated model origin, open-weight status and serving provider rather than treating them as interchangeable classifications.","Checked the supplied August observation slots against the saved Vercel export and report; left Chinese-lab token, request and spend shares unreported where August data or a finalized origin roster was absent.","Compared the documented units, periods and exclusions of Vercel and OpenRouter without combining traffic across gateways. Did not sum daily percentage shares into a monthly share because the checked export lacks the absolute daily denominators needed for weighting."],"methodology":["Preserved the collection-context cutoff of September 26, 2026, 15:30:47 UTC. Recovering the saved evidence is not a new collection or experiment.","Separated model origin, open-weight status and serving provider rather than treating them as interchangeable classifications.","Checked the supplied August observation slots against the saved Vercel export and report; left Chinese-lab token, request and spend shares unreported where August data or a finalized origin roster was absent.","Compared the documented units, periods and exclusions of Vercel and OpenRouter without combining traffic across gateways. 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