How do Chinese models' prices compare to US ones?
I graph the "price frontier" of US and Chinese models. The graph tells you, for each ECI score (model capability), what's the cheapest US vs. Chinese model.
Several takeaways:
1) Under ECI = 155, Chinese models tend to be cheaper.
2) above 155, US models are cheaper.
3) Alibaba and DeepSeek are the two main Chinese companies pushing cheap models.
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