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Leverage top Chinese models without violating US data residency requirements
◆ 85RelevanceOn a story from The New Stack1mo ago
Founders no longer need to sacrifice model performance for data compliance. You can now leverage high-performing Chinese models like Qwen while ensuring all inference stays on US-based infrastructure for your regulated customers.
Takeaways
- Chinese open-weight models represent 60% of OpenRouter’s US token consumption.
- In-Region Routing provides a technical guarantee for domestic data residency.
- Startups can now use Qwen or DeepSeek for security-conscious enterprise clients.
Read the original at thenewstack.io
Chinese AI models dominate OpenRouter’s US token consumption. It can now guarantee that traffic stays entirely in the US.
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