Chinese AI models top global weekly token usage for 26th straight week

The 26-week streak matters less as a scoreboard than as evidence that usage is consolidating around Chinese models rather than fluctuating week to week. The sharper detail is the growth rates: US models expanded faster week over week from a much smaller base, so the gap is narrowing even as the lead holds. That mix — entrenched volume versus faster marginal growth — is the real signal for anyone tracking where API demand and developer attention are drifting. Whether the US growth rate is a one-week spike or the start of share clawback is the open question.