Svmuu News: As the cost of using AI continues to rise, more and more overseas startups and developers are adopting Chinese AI models such as DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Moonshot AI to reduce inference costs. Data shows that DeepSeek’s share of AI traffic on the cloud platform Vercel has risen from less than 1% in May of this year to 17%. OpenRouter, an AI model aggregation platform, reported that DeepSeek’s usage doubled in the first half of 2026, making it the platform’s most popular model. It also noted that the share of tokens used by Chinese open-source models—including those from Xiaomi, MiniMax, and Tencent—has continued to rise, while the shares of Google and OpenAI have declined. (Bloomberg)