00:00Chinese AI models are catching up to U.S. ones faster than ever before.
00:04And it's doing it with limited access to capital and the best chips.
00:09Alongside Vails AI, we asked seven models to build a fictional coffee shop website called Brewberg.
00:16Almost all the models were able to create fully functional websites.
00:20Anthropics Fable 5 took less than an hour to create a polished website with about $50 worth of tokens.
00:27It's already a bargain for a website, but the Kimi K3 model from China's Moonshots built something similar for about
00:35a quarter of the price.
00:37OpenAI's budget GPT model and Alibaba's Queen were even cheaper, although Queen 3.7 Max's output was more bare-bones.
00:47Cheaper and capable enough Chinese options are becoming irresistible for many companies.
00:53Major U.S. tech firms like DoorDash and Airbnb have already adopted Chinese AI.
00:58Users also don't have to send data to China to use Chinese models.
01:03Most of China's top AI models are open-weight, meaning anyone can download, modify, and deploy these models however they
01:12want.
01:13Still, Washington's hardware export controls may keep Chinese AI models behind the U.S. top ones in the short term.
01:20Chinese labs are also accused of distilling from American AI systems, which only increases the risk of more U.S.
01:29restrictions.
01:29But for now, China is winning the competition on price, especially as AI use grows and more companies become conscious
01:38about their surging AI expenses.
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