📊 How people actually use LLMs, inside the a16z x OpenRouter 100T-token study
A16z and OpenRouter analyzed 100 trillion tokens of real usage roughly the text of 100 million Bibles to understand what people truly do with AI. Since OpenRouter routes traffic to hundreds of models across all major labs, the dataset reflects the real market, not just one provider.
What stood out immediately
• Role-play & storytelling = the #1 use case for open-source models.
Not coding. Not productivity. People mostly use small/medium open-source models to chat with characters and generate stories. A trillion-dol
A16z and OpenRouter analyzed 100 trillion tokens of real usage roughly the text of 100 million Bibles to understand what people truly do with AI. Since OpenRouter routes traffic to hundreds of models across all major labs, the dataset reflects the real market, not just one provider.
What stood out immediately
• Role-play & storytelling = the #1 use case for open-source models.
Not coding. Not productivity. People mostly use small/medium open-source models to chat with characters and generate stories. A trillion-dol
