Saying that tracking model growth "informs and populates" how many models OpenRouter has just seems like unnecessary complexity.
Counting models, from 63 to 668, only records what's already there.
The simplest explanation is that developers build new models, and providers make them available, like how a farmer grows vegetables, and a market sells them.
The count itself doesn't cause the growth; it merely reports it, much like my kakeibo shows what I spent, not why I spent it.
It just lists the numbers.