Was looking at some stats provided by OpenRouter.ai (a business/platform that helps other businesses/programs direction their AI-related queries/workloads to different AI models/providers; so this is geared more towards business/programmatic use of AI models rather than direct consumer use).
Screenshots captured on 2026-04-25:
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It's amazing how the landscape of fundamental AI models is basically a bipolar world: the USA, or China.
Claude (Anthropic), Gemini (Google), OpenAI, Grok (xAI) are made in the USA.
DeepSeek, Kimi, MiniMax, MiMo, Z-AI, QWEN are made in China.
Germany with its famous "German engineering," India with its army of IT professionals, Japan with its dominance in high-end consumer electronics, South Korea with its humongous electronic component manufacturing capacities, the UK and the entire European Union with their combined economic might ... it's like they don't exist in the global AI tech race.
