CHINA IS QUICKLY ERODING AMERICA'S LEAD IN THE GLOBAL AI RACE

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Companies and organizations in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia are turning to large language models from Chinese companies as alternatives to offerings from the US. While US AI technology is widely seen as the industry's gold standard, Chinese companies offer performance that is nearly as good at vastly lower prices. Leading Chinese AI companies have open-sourced their models, which could pressure rivals in the US to justify keeping their models private and the premiums they charge for their services.