A look at the narrowing US-China AI gap, as a spate of compelling, low-cost releases makes Chinese AI models increasingly attractive to businesses (Bloomberg)

Chinese low-cost large-language models have accelerated global adoption, halving the time needed to match closed-source rivals in scaling, reasoning and agentic capabilities. Inner Mongolia’s Ulanqab region houses about 100 data centers using inexpensive power. A stealth “Ox Alpha” model with a 1-million-token multimodal context and 100 trillion daily tokens gained viral traction on OpenRouter. The U.S. Justice Department settled a TikTok privacy lawsuit for $400 million.