Everyone says Chinese AI is dirt cheap
← All articlesFIELD NOTES17 JUL 20267 minEveryone says Chinese AI is dirt cheap. I made eight models build the same database and kept the receiptsKimi K3 dropped this week, so it went straight into the benchmark rig: same job, same test gate, only the model changes. The cheap-Chinese-AI story survived exactly half the test.DSDil SinghBad Boy Labs / Studio BBL//ARTICLE Kimi K3 landed this week — Moonshot’s new flagship, a million-token context window, and the usual chorus: Chinese models are the cheap way to run AI now.
- ▪← All articlesFIELD NOTES17 JUL 20267 minEveryone says Chinese AI is dirt cheap.
- ▪I made eight models build the same database and kept the receiptsKimi K3 dropped this week, so it went straight into the benchmark rig: same job, same test gate, only the model changes.
- ▪The cheap-Chinese-AI story survived exactly half the test.DSDil SinghBad Boy Labs / Studio BBL//ARTICLE Kimi K3 landed this week — Moonshot’s new flagship, a million-token context window, and the usual chorus: Chinese models are the cheap w
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← All articlesFIELD NOTES17 JUL 20267 minEveryone says Chinese AI is dirt cheap. I made eight models build the same database and kept the receiptsKimi K3 dropped this week, so it went straight into the benchmark rig: same job, same test gate, only the model changes. The cheap-Chinese-AI story survived exactly half the test.DSDil SinghBad Boy Labs / Studio BBL//ARTICLE Kimi K3 landed this week — Moonshot’s new flagship, a million-token context window, and the usual chorus: Chinese models are the cheap way to run AI now. I happen to keep a benchmark rig for exactly this claim. Not leaderboards — real work, with a bill at the end. So I gave the new arrival the same job I’ve given seven other frontier models this month. The “cheap Chinese AI” story survived exactly half the test.
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