Post #6063

📈Chinese AI labs have moved fast and they’re taking real share. In just a year, nearly half of developer traffic that once went to ChatGPT and Claude is now flowing to Chinese players. Analysts estimate that around 45% of requests are heading toward companies like MiniMax, Zhipu, and Moonshot. The driver isn’t mystery, it’s economics. Chinese models are reportedly 10–20x cheaper than many Western alternatives. And for a large portion of use cases, developers say the performance gap is small enough to justify the switch. It’s a familiar playbook: enter an established category, aggressively optimize for cost, narrow the quality gap, and scale distribution fast. When price-performance becomes “good enough,” market share can move quickly. In AI, as in many industries before it, cost efficiency is becoming a weapon. @aipost🏴