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CamperBob2 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Qwen-3.6-Plus is the first model to break 1T token...

How does OpenRouter manage to run closed-weight models like Qwen 3.6? Did Qwen have to actually cooperate with them by contributing the weights?

dcre 3 months ago [–]

OpenRouter is primarily a router. It just proxies requests through to the actual provider.

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