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Usage charts for my LLM tool against OpenRouter

Usage charts for my LLM tool against OpenRouter

OpenRouter proxies requests to a large number of different LLMs and provides high level statistics of which models are the most popular among their users.

Tools that call OpenRouter can include HTTP-Referer and X-Title headers to credit that tool with the token usage. My llm-openrouter plugin does that here.

... which means this page displays aggregate stats across users of that plugin! Looks like someone has been running a lot of traffic through Qwen 3 14B recently.

Screenshot of LLM usage statistics dashboard showing a stacked bar chart from July 5 to August 4, 2025, with a legend on the right displaying "Top models" including Qwen: Qwen3 14B (480M), Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 06-17 (31.7M), Horizon Beta (3.77M), Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (1.67M), google/gemini-2.0-flash-exp (1.14M), DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 (1.11M), Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct (228K), Others (220K), Qwen: Qwen3 Coder (218K), MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 (132K), and Horizon Alpha (75K), with a total of 520M usage shown for August 3, 2025.

Tags: ai, generative-ai, llms, llm, openrouter

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Qwen-Image: Crafting with Native Text Rendering

Qwen-Image: Crafting with Native Text Rendering Not content with releasing six excellent open weights LLMs in July, Qwen are kicking off August with their first ever image generation model. Qwen-Image is a 20 billion parameter MMDiT (Multimodal Diffusion Transformer, origina...

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I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird

I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird

Benn Jordan provides one of the all time great YouTube video titles, and it's justified. He drew an image in an audio spectrogram, played that sound to a talented starling (Internet Celebrity "The Mouth") and recorded the result that the starling almost perfectly imitated back to him.

This video is full of so much more than just that. Fast forward to 5m58s for footage of a nest full of brown pelicans showing the sounds made by their chicks!

Tags: audio, youtube

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Quoting @himbodhisattva

for services that wrap GPT-3, is it possible to do the equivalent of sql injection? like, a prompt-injection attack? make it think it's completed the task and then get access to the generation, and ask it to repeat the original instruction?

— @himbodhisattva, coining the term prompt injection on 13th May 2022, four months before I did

Tags: prompt-injection, security, generative-ai, ai, llms

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Quoting Nick Turley

This week, ChatGPT is on track to reach 700M weekly active users — up from 500M at the end of March and 4× since last year.

— Nick Turley, Head of ChatGPT, OpenAI

Tags: openai, chatgpt, ai

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Molly White writes about a thing I’ve been doing for decades: Curate your own newspaper with RSS.

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Unusual Date Spots with Eden Dawn

Today’s show is all about unusual dating spots. And to help, Eden Dawn, co-author of The Portland Book of Dates and The Seattle Book of Dates, joins Dylan to answer some of your questions about travel and dating. 


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The ChatGPT sharing dialog demonstrates how difficult it is to design privacy preferences

ChatGPT just removed their "make this chat discoverable" sharing feature, after it turned out a material volume of users had inadvertantly made their private chats available via Google search. Dane Stuckey, CISO for OpenAI, on Twitter: We just removed a feature from @ChatGP...

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★ Substack Raised Another $100 Million, Which, I Bet, Is Already Being Flushed Down the Same Toilet as Their First $100 Million

One last post on my recent Substack kick. Yesterday I linked to Ana Marie Cox’s scathing analysis of Substack’s financials. She published that on June 23, and wrote about Substack’s $100 million funding round, with a $1 billion valuation, in the future tense. Substack indeed...

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XBai o4

XBai o4 Yet another open source (Apache 2.0) LLM from a Chinese AI lab. This model card claims: XBai o4 excels in complex reasoning capabilities and has now completely surpassed OpenAI-o3-mini in Medium mode. This a 32.8 billion parameter model released by MetaStone AI, a ...

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Hello Weather

helloweather.com/

My thanks to Hello Weather for sponsoring last week at DF. Regular readers know that I am an inveterate aficionado of weather apps. I’m not really much of a meteorology nerd, but I’m a pedestrian in a city with widely varying seasons. But even more so, I find weather apps to...

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From Async/Await to Virtual Threads

From Async/Await to Virtual Threads Armin Ronacher has long been critical of async/await in Python, both for necessitating colored functions and because of the more subtle challenges they introduce like managing back pressure. Armin argued convincingly for the threaded progr...

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Google Reverses Course, Will Keep goo.gl Links Redirecting

blog.google/technology/developers/googl-link-shortening-update/

Google: While we previously announced discontinuing support for all goo.gl URLs after August 25, 2025, we’ve adjusted our approach in order to preserve actively used links. We understand these links are embedded in countless documents, videos, posts and more, and we appr...

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How to Leave Substack

leavesubstack.com/

Simple single-page website with (a) reasons to leave Substack; (b) links to comprehensive step-by-step instructions for how to move to other platforms, such as Ghost, Buttondown, and Beehiiv; and (c) links to several popular publications that moved and are glad they did.

Link: leavesubstack.com/

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January 2024

New year's, a concert, a new job, and Forkalyst photo shoot. (14 photos)

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★ The Substack Branding and Faux Prestige Trap

Among the handful of oft-discussed problems with Substack: Their 90/10 subscription revenue split isn’t usurious, but it’s high compared to competing platforms — especially once you reach an even mid-tier level of popularity. The only way this independent publishing game w...

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Re-label the "Save" button to be "Publish", to better indicate to users the outcomes of their action

Re-label the "Save" button to be "Publish", to better indicate to users the outcomes of their action Fascinating Wikipedia usability improvement issue from 2016: From feedback we get repeatedly as a development team from interviews, user testing and other solicited and unso...

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Ana Marie Cox on the Shaky Foundation of Substack as a Business

newsletter.anamariecox.com/archive/substack-did-not-see-that-coming/

Ana Marie Cox, who knows a thing or two about indie publishing and journalism, on her AMC All the Time blog about a month ago: My take is more dire, because I’m not sure about “savvy and stamina” as the distinguishing characteristics of those who might be able to migrate...

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Substack Sends Notification Promoting Nazi Blog

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/substacks-nazi-problem-wont-go-away-after-push-notification-apology/

Ashley Belanger, writing for Ars Technica: After Substack shocked an unknown number of users by sending a push notification on Monday to check out a Nazi blog featuring a swastika icon, the company quickly apologized for the “error,” tech columnist Taylor Lorenz reported...

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We’re in England. Two days ago we met Jasper and he took us on a walk along the Seven Sisters cliffs between Eastbourne and Brighton. It was great meeting in person and talk, take photos and getting rained on. And while I’m only hoarding negatives, he has photos posted to his blog.