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It is not only being openly acknowledged that Chinese models have fewer guardrails and are therefore more useful, but also that they are cheaper and thus pose a threat to the US economy. In doing so, people are indirectly admitting that they see them as serious competition.

Chubby♨️: China’s open-weight models are starting to threaten the business model behind OpenAI and Anthropic.

Via Wall Street Journal

Kimi K3 and Qwen 3.8 Max are cheap, capable and customizable. Kimi was competitive with leading US systems on some benchmarks, while American companies