+1

Of course US has a huge head start, but if AI keeps growing, what matters is how the market's gonna look like years from now.

Most of my clients using AI in the business workflows (in products) use Chinese LLMs, because after benchmarking for a specific use case you nearly always end up finding that you pay half or a tenth.

That's not a new phenomenon. I've adapted Gemini Flash 2.5 years and years ago when people were dissing it as "crap", yet it was the best budget and quality fit for the task I had at hand back then (translating and summarizing tons of documents). It was both faster and around 100 times cheaper than the best GPT 4 model available.

Needless to say, medium-sized Chinese models are far better than those LLMs and a perfect fit for countless applications.