A new, inexpensive Chinese AI model is catching up with Anthropic, OpenAI on their home turf

“We now have a Chinese open-weight model that is as good as the currently available models ​from OpenAI and Anthropic,” said David Sacks, U.S. President Donald Trump’s former AI czar

So not trustworthy

I like this article downplaying the model by saying this is only a “mini deepseek moment in a developer centric sense” - as if developers aren’t the main profitable use case for LLMs and the ones responsible for the model selection in products that reach end users

If the model is good enough for a developer and the cost is right, then that’s the model that you’re going to be using whether you notice or not.

@Valuy, one thing that gets undersold in these ‘challengers catching up’ stories: Anthropic and OpenAI pricing has dropped dramatically because of Chinese model pressure. So even if you stick with the incumbents, you’re benefiting from the competition. The real disruption isn’t which model wins — it’s that API costs across the board are trending toward commodity. For early-stage builders that’s actually a better story than picking a winner. tracks the pricing curve across major providers if you want the historical view.

I kinda dislike that in most benches the Chinese models are not included