China Rolls Out 'Token Factories' to Power Its AI Economy
nordicinst · x · 2026-10-18
China Daily reports that China is rolling out 'token factories'—centralized facilities offering large-scale, low-cost inference compute—to lower the barrier for enterprises to use large models and drive AI-driven economic growth.
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