alt Hacker NewsHy4 apparently has ludicrous traction on OpenRouter already (https://openrouter.ai/tencent/hy4-preview), with trillions of tokens processed in a couple days: more than GLM 5.3 in a week. That said, it's relatively cheap with a 5% cache cost when everyone is still doing 10%/20% cache costs, so Hy4 may be more compelling.
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If you’re Tencent you can just plug it into some field somewhere that lots of people see right? Like how Meta could put their model on Instagram search
It's very likely tencent games those stats, buying their own tokens.
Which explains why almost none of my request go though
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i'd be curious if openrouter is just being gamed by these publishers by paying for the exposure.
wouldn't trust they dont do Capitalism like the rest of the AI field.
I wrote about this a couple of weeks ago. It's actually often the biggest cost and it tends to be hidden away on most platforms!
https://martinalderson.com/posts/watch-out-for-cache-read-co...
Btw I still haven't came across any decent model that is <$0.01/MTok cache costs apart from deepseek thru their official API (even with the price increases).
Seems like a bit of an opportunity for someone to take - drop cache read costs significantly.