China's efficiency-first AI playbook: intelligence per dollar as the new benchmark
ingliguori · x · 2026-09-12
The author argues Chinese labs are pursuing an efficiency-first strategy — fewer active parameters, lower inference costs, open weights and leaner architectures — citing (speculatively) Kimi K3, Qwen3.8 and DeepSeek V4. The next benchmark may be intelligence per dollar, watt and GPU rather than parameter count. Claims are opinion-level, without cited sources.
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