Chinese open models now account for as much as 46% of tokens routed through OpenRouter by US firms, up from an 11% average, as American model prices climb.

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VoodooAardvark@lemmy.zip · 20 pts · 37d (1 reply)

China can keep prices down for far longer than US corporations can remain solvent.

Also, given that electricity costs in China are like a third of what they are in the US, it's fundamentally cheaper for Chinese companies to operate.

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