Bloomberg chart: China closes AI gap, price war pressures US labs
Hesamation · x · 2026-08-20
Citing a Bloomberg chart, the post notes the narrowing US-China AI gap: Kimi K3 is close to Fable's performance at 70% lower cost per task. While Anthropic previously thought China was 6-12 months behind, a cluster of frontier labs now exists there (excluding GLM-5.3). The conclusion is that US labs still hold the frontier, but China is making it impossible for them to charge frontier prices.
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