In China, a fierce competition over prices has erupted among AI model developers. The market is flooded with numerous companies offering similar products, leading to a decrease in prices across various sectors such as electric vehicles, bike-sharing, and bubble tea. The newest battleground for price wars is the realm of artificial intelligence chatbots. Surprisingly, China, which once lacked advanced language models, is now witnessing a surge in AI chatbot offerings that rival those of American counterparts. Experts previously believed that Chinese language models lagged a decade behind the cutting-edge technology in the United States, but the landscape has rapidly evolved.
PRICE WARS are ten a penny in China. The emergence of hundreds of lookalike companies seemingly overnight is pushing down retail prices of everything from electric vehicles to bike-sharing and bubble tea. The latest products to enter the ruinous fray are artificial-intelligence (AI) chatbots. This may seem surprising. Until recently China’s problem was not a surfeit of large language models (LLMs), the sort that makes ChatGPT a humanlike content-creator, but their dearth. At the start of 2023 experts reckoned that the Chinese LLMs that did exist were a decade behind the American cutting edge.
2024-06-13 08:53:55
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