[aniceperson]

You are not allowed to use any model from Chinese labs at American companies. Even from other companies like Mistral it is hard to get access, since enterprises require their own instances on vertex/bedrock/azure, and to run alternatives you have to go through multiple layers of management. In practice, no employee will proactively advocate for alternative models and the oligopoly is written in the wall, specially since the investments are circular anyway.

[overflow897]

For now. When they cost 5x less and are of comparable quality that may change very quickly. Cost cutting applies everywhere.

[lenkite]

Well, some Chinese AI companies like Zhipu AI are actually increasing price. Let us see the trend in 2027 when the money runs out there too.

[zombot]

And how, pray tell, will that make for trillions of dollars return on investments?