Mid-size open-weight models accounted for 3 out of every 4 new tokens in the past 6 months. Tokens per week by model type. Mid-size open models accounted for 74% of the growth in tokens from Mar 30 to Oct 4, 2026. Mid-size open = open-weight models with 100B–1T total parameters (e.g. DeepSeek V4 Flash, GLM-5.3 Flash, MiniMax M3).
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