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		CamperBob2 26 days 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 26 days ago [–]

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

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