“ChinAI #349: Tokens Made in China?” by Jeffrey Ding

Featured links

• Chinese Tokens Go Global
• 663B tokens from MiniMax
• Chinese AI models capture 61% of token use on OpenRouter (sloppy perplexity page)
• She runs AI safety at Meta. Her AI agent still went rogue
• State of AI - An Empirical 100 Trillion Token Study with OpenRouter
• Power and Advantage in the AI Era

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These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations of Chinese-language musings on AI and related topics. Jeff is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University.

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First published:
March 2nd, 2026

Source:
https://chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-348-tokens-made-in-china

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