Why China's AI model price war hurts labs but matters less for cloud providers
menhguin · x · 2026-10-12
A discussion around China's AI model price war: a cited take argues cut-throat pricing ends with no durable value for labs, and together with floated bans on Chinese models weighs on related stocks. menhguin counters that for cloud providers it matters less, and large US enterprises don't use Chinese provider APIs directly anyway — while admitting the infra thesis feels intuitively lacking even though it's empirically working so far.
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