Some Chinese AI Large Models Are 90% Cheaper Than U.S. Counterparts

According to a report by Jinse Finance on July 8, citing a July 7 article from U.S. CNBC, the rising pricing of models from leading U.S. AI companies has driven the rapid expansion of Chinese AI large models in the U.S. enterprise market due to their cost-effectiveness. Industry insiders point out that the performance gap between some leading open-source and open-weight models from China and cutting-edge models from U.S. companies like OpenAI and Anthropic is approximately 6 to 9 months. However, their pricing is 60% to 90% lower, while still covering the vast majority of standard AI tasks, making them highly favored by U.S. enterprises. According to statistics from the AI model aggregation platform OpenRouter, since February 8 of this year, the proportion of tokens processed by Chinese AI models for U.S. enterprises has exceeded 30% weekly, peaking at 46%. In contrast, the average proportion over the previous 12 months was 11%. (CCTV Finance)