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CNBC reports Chinese models narrowing the performance gap and gaining U.S. company adoption, but does not establish that frontier labs release faster to create enterprise separation. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: Chinese AI models gain ground with U.S. companies as costs surge · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:0b3f0b20bf04e88ec54a93facc4bc62984e5c5ef67d8cd691036de75d74a27e2

Chinese-built AI models are gaining traction among U.S. companies as they narrow the performance gap with leading American rivals while remaining significantly cheaper to use. ... GLM 5.2 landed within a percentage point of Anthropic’s Opus 4.8 on one closely watched agentic benchmark, at roughly a fifth of the cost.