Abacus.AI CEO: Chinese open-source models beat US labs on easy tasks, DeepSeek cheapest for agents
bindureddy · x · 2026-10-06
Abacus.AI CEO Bindu Reddy argues Chinese open-source models are exceptionally good at easy tasks, claiming no US model or frontier lab comes close. He says DeepSeek remains the best option for simple personal agents since per-user inference costs almost nothing.
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