{"id":154664,"date":"2026-07-16T01:25:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T01:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154664"},"modified":"2026-07-16T01:25:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T01:25:16","slug":"as-us-ai-costs-soar-global-businesses-pivot-to-chinas-low-cost-open-weight-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154664","title":{"rendered":"As US AI costs soar, global businesses pivot to China\u2019s low-cost, open-weight models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostGlobal businesses are increasingly switching from premium, closed-source US software \u2013 such as OpenAI\u2019s GPT and Anthropic\u2019s Claude \u2013 to cheaper Chinese open-weight models that offer near-frontier performance.<br \/>\nSince mid-June, the daily token volume of Zhipu\u2019s GLM-5.2, which operates at about one-fifth the cost of Anthropic\u2019s Claude Opus 4.8, had surged 50-fold on Vercel, the San Francisco-based cloud platform for AI web development reported on Tuesday.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, DeepSeek\u2019s V4 Flash, a&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-trends\/article\/3360659\/us-ai-costs-soar-global-businesses-pivot-chinas-low-cost-open-weight-models?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostGlobal businesses are increasingly switching from premium, closed-source US software \u2013 such as OpenAI\u2019s GPT and Anthropic\u2019s Claude \u2013 to cheaper Chinese open-weight models&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154664"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}