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This is no surprise at all and was very predictable.

The Chinese open weight models were always winning the AI race to zero where as the likes of Anthropic and OpenAI have no choice but to increase token costs.

Even Microsoft wants to use some of the Chinese models only realizing how expensive both the frontier models are. It turns out that Jevon's paradox does not exist in the US (it exists in China).

This "Tokenmaxxing" marketing stunt was a scam for the frontier models to raise even more money at unsustainable valuations.