It doesn't take a genius to figure out that a lot of companies smarting from the increasing costs of AI tokens might start to look for cheaper alternatives, and that those alternatives increasingly ar...
What might end up mattering more than who gets to the "singularity" or quantum leap first is market share, and one thing we've seen reliably from China is they are very good at securing market share through govt subsidies and flooding the market with cheaper alternatives. The sticker shock that organizations investing in AI are now feeling is a result of AI companies finally charging something approximating their real costs to provide the service. Meanwhile, Chinese AI companies can continue to subsidize the cost of their tokens probably indefinitely.
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