[Analysis: To Reduce Costs, Overseas Developers Turn to Chinese AI Models Like DeepSeek] Odaily Planet Daily News – As AI usage costs continue to rise, an increasing number of overseas startups and developers are adopting Chinese AI models such as DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Moonshot AI to lower inference costs. Data shows that DeepSeek's share of AI traffic on the cloud platform Vercel has risen from less than 1% in May this year to 17%. AI model aggregation platform OpenRouter stated that DeepSeek usage doubled in the first half of 2026, making it the most popular model on the platform. It also noted that the token usage share of Chinese open-source models, including Xiaomi, MiniMax, and Tencent, continues to grow, while the shares of Google and OpenAI have declined. (Bloomberg)