China AI
4 published articles
China's AI pricing war, receipts pending
Zhipu's viral $0.07 GLM-5.2 price already 10x'd, one reply claims
Zhipu's GLM-5.2 went viral at $0.07 per million tokens, a 95% cut posters called "almost free." One reply says the price rebounded 10x as a stunt for eyeballs. Practitioners add that GLM-5.2 never tested as frontier-grade.
2026-08-10
AI Video Generation
MiniMax H3 prices video at a third of rivals, ranks No. 1 in editing
MiniMax H3 packs text, image, video and audio into one model, prices output at a third of mainstream per-second rates and ranks first in video editing on Artificial Analysis. The weights are promised within days. How the output holds up outside the company's own demos is the open question.
2026-08-06
AI Policy
41 Rivals Signed the Same Open-Weight Letter. That's Not Consensus, It's Nerves
Forty-one rival companies signed the same letter arguing open-weight AI is America's best bet, right as Chinese labs matched US benchmarks on capability, not just price. Read together, the letter looks less like confidence and more like a hedge against a coordination problem the signatories haven't actually solved.
2026-07-29
AI Leadership
America's AI moat is draining and the East is turning the valve
Open-source models from the East are eroding the US advantage in AI, forcing a strategic reckoning. From DeepSeek to Sakana, the ecosystem is rewriting the rules.
2026-07-27