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The domestic model ranked No. 2 globally on OpenRouter's weekly chart is finally open source. Chinese labs keep winning distribution outside China while US media watches OpenAI. A Chinese team squeezed a game world model onto a single RTX 5090 and open sourced it. The chip trade signal is inference efficiency, not just training cluster size. Qianwen Office E-commerce Edition promises a store in 7 days for a few hundred yuan, saving 50,000 yuan in startup costs. Jiyuan Ludong already has 300,000 developer registrations for Double 11. Alibaba is turning Qwen into a merchant and developer funnel. China AI is shifting from model demos to default app slots, merchant workflows, and cheap inference hardware. Apple, Alibaba, DeepSeek, and open source rivals are fighting for the same rails. For AI stock traders, the signal is who owns the iPhone default, the storefront, and the 5090 endpoint.

The domestic model ranked No. 2 globally on OpenRouter's weekly chart is finally open source. Chinese labs keep winning distribution outside China while US media watches OpenAI.