DeepSeek's newly released V4.1-Flash-1017 model topped OpenRouter's weekly call volume at 33.6 trillion tokens, followed by the DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, the MiniMax M3.1 Flash, Z.AI's GLM 5.3 Flash, and Tencent Hunyuan's Hy4 preview. This marks 26 straight weeks that Chinese AI models have outperformed US rivals on the platform, leading the world in usage.