24 August 2026
Open-source AI model usage share doubles in one year
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- Open-weight models, which anyone can download and run, now account for nearly half of all AI inference tokens used, up from about a quarter a year ago.
- Closed-weight models, available only through companies like OpenAI, still dominate in absolute volume, with token usage growing seven times over the same period.
