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How big is the open model economy today?
Measuring token volumes across inference providers offers empirical insight into how rapidly open-weights models are being adopted in production relative to proprietary frontier labs.
Reported by Interconnects ·
What happened
Interconnects examines the scale of the open model inference market by tracking public token volume disclosures from startups like Baseten, Fireworks, and Together AI alongside OpenRouter API metrics. The available data indicates near-exponential growth in usage, including Fireworks serving over 40 trillion tokens daily for customized models alone, which the author compares against Google's reported platform token volumes.
Who it’s about
- Fireworks
- Together AI
- Baseten
- OpenRouter
Source
Interconnects
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