China’s AI models spooked Wall Street. But they may turbocharge industry growth

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Chinese AI models have unsettled Wall Street investors due to intense competition and price drops, but industry experts see this as a catalyst for robust growth. Reduced costs of AI model deployment are expected to boost global demand for AI technologies.

Breakthroughs in cheap Chinese open-weight artificial intelligence models have spooked US investors, but analysts argue plummeting model costs will benefit the AI industry in the long run by supercharging global demand for AI systems. Companies across the AI industry have slashed prices in recent weeks, with large-language model (LLM) inference prices per million tokens falling from above US$2 at the start of June to just US$1.2 this week, according to research firm Silicon Data’s LLM Token...