Foreign Affairs essay: China's AI is cheap and open, America's is costly and closed
ccerrato147 · x · 2026-11-02
A Foreign Affairs essay splits the AI world in two: China's models are cheap and mostly open-weight, while America's are expensive and mostly closed. Commenter ccerrato147 points to pricing as the driver: K3 costs $15 per million output tokens vs $50 for Fable, and Moonshot's model released Oct 23 is just $10 — a major factor for anyone running coding agents all day. Major US clouds sell both, so try each on your own workload before choosing.
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