How are they 'streaming' the responses and 'pooling' the tokens?
Do they have MacBooks in the US that run the queries and stream the outputs back to China?
The resellers route requests via one of thousands of Claude Max 5x accounts. When an account reaches its usage limit, they automatically switch to another account.
> Do they have MacBooks in the US that run the queries and stream the outputs back to China?
why would anyone do that? you do realize the laptop farm case was work computers?the answer to your question is containers/VMs + residential proxies
ask your gpt how does openrouter work, then ask, how do proxies work.
They probably asked claude how to do it.
Why do you need macbooks? Just rent servers from any hosting provider.