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CHINA — Chinese-Lab Inference Share

How much of the world's AI runs on Chinese models?

The share of routed LLM tokens served by Chinese-lab models — DeepSeek, Alibaba/Qwen, MiniMax, Moonshot, Zhipu, Tencent. Up from 18% to ~58% since September 2025.

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Chinese-lab share

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What people use today

Headlines and export-control debates — no clean measure of actual adoption.

KOPS CHINA

The live Chinese-lab share of real routed inference.

Valuable for

Anyone watching the US–China AI split, or the DeepSeek-moment.

Live index

CHINA, since September.

The share of routed LLM tokens served by Chinese-lab models — DeepSeek, Alibaba/Qwen, MiniMax, Moonshot, Zhipu, Tencent. Up from 18% to ~58% since September 2025.

CHINA · Chinese-lab % of routed tokens · weeklycadence: hourly

How it's built

From where the tokens go.

Revealed adoption

Tokens routed to Chinese-lab models, mapped by lab origin — what the world actually runs.

Settles monthly

CHINA-YYYY-MM settles to the mean of the daily share (Asian-style), finalized on the 1st.

Part of the family

Sits beside OPEN, MOAT and KOST.

Settlement

A settleable contract.

The DeepSeek-moment as a settleable number — each month the arithmetic mean of the daily Chinese-lab share. Each month settles to the arithmetic mean of the daily index (Asian-style, like the GPU-compute futures), finalized on the 1st.

Monthly settlements · CHINA-YYYY-MM

Contract spec

TickerCHINA-YYYY-MM

UnderlyingChinese-lab share

SettlementMean of daily fixings, Asian-style

SourceOpenRouter routed volume

Final1st of the following month

This month (accruing)–

Sources

OpenRouter rankings-daily (token volume)

OpenRouter /models (price)

~340 models · 17+ labs