aiqbench analysis

The piece examines how to measure the market for open-weight model inference, relying on noisy signals: startup disclosures (Baseten, Fireworks, Together AI), OpenRouter's open-model token share, and hyperscaler platforms that don't break out usage by model type. Readers should treat the resulting market-size and share estimates as approximations, since the sources are self-reported, marketing-adjacent, or incomplete. The core question, whether open model inference is growing or marginal next to closed providers like OpenAI and Anthropic, remains unresolved on the evidence presented.