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Six-Fold Cost Gap Fuels US 'Gold Rush' for Chinese AI Tokens

Six-Fold Cost Gap Fuels US 'Gold Rush' for Chinese AI Tokens

A significant six-fold cost differential has emerged between Chinese and US-generated AI tokens, driving a "gold rush" among US startups towards cheaper Chinese AI models. AI tokens, fundamental units of data representing words or punctuation marks, are essential for large language models to generat

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