{"id":5575,"date":"2026-07-15T09:39:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T09:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/?p=5575"},"modified":"2026-07-15T09:39:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T09:39:45","slug":"american-ai-is-expensive-some-startups-are-turning-to-cheap-chinese-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/?p=5575","title":{"rendered":"American AI is expensive. Some startups are turning to cheap Chinese models"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Up First<\/p> <p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Flo Crivello&#8217;s San Francisco-based startup, Lindy.ai, creates artificial intelligence &#8220;assistants&#8221; to manage your email and calendar. At first, the company leaned heavily on Anthropic&#8217;s top-of-the-line AI models.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/?p=5559\">Todd Blanche faces high-stakes confirmation hearing for attorney general<\/a><\/p> <p>But in meeting after meeting with his finance guy, Crivello said, one thing became clear: &#8220;By far, our No. 1 expense was Anthropic,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Like, more than payroll.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"In this photo from 2000, a woman holding a cellphone to her ear walks past the illuminated Nasdaq sign in New York City's Times Square.\" class=\"wp-image-5568\" height=\"582\" src=\"https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1554027282d74ae91c11fd44f2468b78-768x582.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1554027282d74ae91c11fd44f2468b78-768x582.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1554027282d74ae91c11fd44f2468b78-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1554027282d74ae91c11fd44f2468b78.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n <div>\n<h3>Business <\/h3>\n<h3>Is AI &#8216;one big bubble&#8217;? Behind the tech sell-off<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<!-- END CLASS=\"BUCKETBLOCK\" -->\n<\/div>\n<!-- END CLASS=\"BUCKET IMG\" -->\n<\/div>\n<!-- END ID=\"RESNX-S1-5886476-100\" CLASS=\"BUCKETWRAP INTERNALLINK INSETTWOCOLUMN INSET2COL \" -->\n<p>More than payroll \u2014 for over two dozen employees. More than rent. More than for anything else. So last month, Crivello announced that Lindy had migrated 100% of its traffic to the Chinese AI model DeepSeek-V4.<\/p> <p>&#8220;It was just 10x cheaper,&#8221; he said, adding that it had saved the company millions of dollars. &#8220;So it was a very, very simple business decision.&#8221;<\/p> <p>Artificial intelligence has become one of the \u2014 it not  \u2014 fastest-growing costs for U.S. businesses. But for many companies, it&#8217;s a double-edged sword: necessary but expensive. To survive, a growing number of firms are switching from American models to cheaper Chinese AI.<\/p> <p>In the race to create the best AI models, U.S. companies like Anthropic, OpenAI and Google lead the world. Experts say Chinese models are six to 12 months behind in terms of capabilities.<\/p> <div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"This picture taken on February 5, 2026 shows advertising promoting ByteDance's cloud and AI service platform 'Volcano Engine' and chatbot 'Doubao' at the Beijing Capital International airport in Beijing.\" class=\"wp-image-5569\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/40815326218ace1a9fbbeba2bbec9024-768x512.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/40815326218ace1a9fbbeba2bbec9024-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/40815326218ace1a9fbbeba2bbec9024-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/40815326218ace1a9fbbeba2bbec9024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n <div>\n<h3>U.S. vs. China: Inside a great power rivalry <\/h3>\n<h3>China&#8217;s AI chatbots are advanced and versatile \u2014 and begging for more users<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<!-- END CLASS=\"BUCKETBLOCK\" -->\n<\/div>\n<!-- END CLASS=\"BUCKET IMG\" -->\n<\/div>\n<!-- END ID=\"RESNX-S1-5886476-101\" CLASS=\"BUCKETWRAP INTERNALLINK INSETTWOCOLUMN INSET2COL \" -->\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"China embraces AI in the classroom\" class=\"wp-image-5570\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/e69e094b282c19ac26a34ec7cb1866de-768x768.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/e69e094b282c19ac26a34ec7cb1866de-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/e69e094b282c19ac26a34ec7cb1866de-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/e69e094b282c19ac26a34ec7cb1866de-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/e69e094b282c19ac26a34ec7cb1866de.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n <div>\n<h3>State of the World from NPR <\/h3>\n<h3>China embraces AI in the classroom<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<!-- END CLASS=\"BUCKETBLOCK\" -->\n<\/div>\n<!-- END CLASS=\"BUCKET IMG\" -->\n<\/div>\n<!-- END ID=\"RESNX-S1-5886476-102\" CLASS=\"BUCKETWRAP INTERNALLINK INSETTWOCOLUMN INSET2COL \" -->\n<p>But China has carved out a niche in open-source models, which are free to download and adapt. &#8220;The open-source scene right now is absolutely dominated by the Chinese. It&#8217;s not even close,&#8221; Crivello said.<\/p> <p>He said every founder he knows who is working in the AI space either is thinking about switching to Chinese models or has done so already.<\/p> <p>And ballooning AI costs are not just a startup issue either. Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi spoke about it last month on the  podcast. &#8220;We blew through our AI budget in a quarter, you know, for the whole year, essentially. And it is forcing us to adjust,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<!-- END ID=\"MID-STORY-RECOMMENDATIONS-MOUNT-PIANO\" CLASS=\"MID-STORY-RECOMMENDATIONS-MOUNT-PIANO\" ARIA-LABEL=\"RECOMMENDED STORIES\" -->\n<p>(Uber did not respond to NPR&#8217;s request for information about whether it uses Chinese models.)<\/p> <p>Bloomberg reported Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky as saying that last year the company relied on Alibaba&#8217;s Qwen model, which was &#8220;good,&#8221; &#8220;fast and cheap.&#8221; Perplexity and Nvidia have also made use of Qwen.<\/p> <h3>Like a Ferrari or a Honda<\/h3> <p>Many companies are wary of trumpeting their use of Chinese models due to political sensitivities, but the models are widely available on AI-model hubslike Hugging Face, on the code hosting platform GitHub and via model aggregators and inference providers based outside China.<\/p> <div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The WeSemiBay Semiconductor Ecosystem Expo in Shenzhen, China.\" class=\"wp-image-5571\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/012febb92b6af4c4825a3c23aff81b47-768x576.jpeg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/012febb92b6af4c4825a3c23aff81b47-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/012febb92b6af4c4825a3c23aff81b47-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/012febb92b6af4c4825a3c23aff81b47.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n <div>\n<h3>U.S. vs. China: Inside a great power rivalry <\/h3>\n<h3>In the shadow of U.S. export controls, China rallies its own chip industry<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<!-- END CLASS=\"BUCKETBLOCK\" -->\n<\/div>\n<!-- END CLASS=\"BUCKET IMG\" -->\n<\/div>\n<!-- END ID=\"RESNX-S1-5886476-103\" CLASS=\"BUCKETWRAP INTERNALLINK INSETTWOCOLUMN INSET2COL \" -->\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>Technology <\/h3>\n<h3>Trump administration partially lifts export ban on Anthropic&#8217;s most advanced AI model <\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<!-- END CLASS=\"BUCKETBLOCK\" -->\n<\/div>\n<!-- END CLASS=\"BUCKET IMG\" -->\n<\/div>\n<!-- END ID=\"RESNX-S1-5886476-104\" CLASS=\"BUCKETWRAP INTERNALLINK INSETTWOCOLUMN INSET2COL \" -->\n<p>That includes the San Francisco-based company Featherless, which offers access to some 30,000 AI models. Founder and CEO Eugene Cheah said Chinese models are popular, even if they aren&#8217;t &#8220;frontier&#8221; models, or best in class.<\/p> <p>&#8220;It&#8217;s like the difference between driving a Ferrari and a Honda. You can have the best luxury car, or you can just have a Honda at scale that works,&#8221; he said.<\/p> <p>&#8220;Actually, a lot of open-source AI groups are perfectly fine being N-1, N being where the frontier is,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Because as the gap keeps shrinking, at some point the question is: Does it actually matter?&#8221;<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/?p=5553\">Our favorite brains, including Einstein\u2019s stolen one<\/a><\/p> <p>For many, like Lindy, it doesn&#8217;t matter. The Honda of AI is perfectly good.<\/p> <p>OpenRouter, another platform where startups can access a range of AI models, reported that use of China&#8217;s DeepSeek has gone from around 9% to nearly 20% since January. Use of models from the Chinese companies MiniMax, Xiaomi and Tencent have also risen.<\/p> <p>Some users download and self-host open-source Chinese AI models, but many use them via paid AI-hosting companies, like Featherless and OpenRouter, so that user data is kept in the United States.<\/p> <div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A woman uses a laptop as she lies on the grass in a park in the Manhattan borough of New York City on April 24, 2026.\" class=\"wp-image-5572\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/eba29d2b0a89e71cdbc7795471e7a05a-768x512.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/eba29d2b0a89e71cdbc7795471e7a05a-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/eba29d2b0a89e71cdbc7795471e7a05a-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/eba29d2b0a89e71cdbc7795471e7a05a.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n <div>\n<h3>Business <\/h3>\n<h3>What do you actually get when you pay for AI?<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<!-- END CLASS=\"BUCKETBLOCK\" -->\n<\/div>\n<!-- END CLASS=\"BUCKET IMG\" -->\n<\/div>\n<!-- END ID=\"RESNX-S1-5886476-105\" CLASS=\"BUCKETWRAP INTERNALLINK INSETTWOCOLUMN INSET2COL \" -->\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"In this file photo, a man using a smartphone passes through the arched windows at Grand Central Terminal in New York City on March 24, 2025.\" class=\"wp-image-5573\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/feed54481e614ff9c5e9544a64dcfc0f-768x512.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/feed54481e614ff9c5e9544a64dcfc0f-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/feed54481e614ff9c5e9544a64dcfc0f-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/feed54481e614ff9c5e9544a64dcfc0f.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n <div>\n<h3>Elections <\/h3>\n<h3>Political text messages could get more effective and annoying. Blame AI<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<!-- END CLASS=\"BUCKETBLOCK\" -->\n<\/div>\n<!-- END CLASS=\"BUCKET IMG\" -->\n<\/div>\n<!-- END ID=\"RESNX-S1-5886476-106\" CLASS=\"BUCKETWRAP INTERNALLINK INSETTWOCOLUMN INSET2COL \" -->\n<p>Victor Su-Ortiz, who does global product marketing at the Shanghai-based MiniMax, attended a recent AI engineers conference in San Francisco. Companies pay to use AI models by paying for tokens, or units of AI work. Su-Ortiz said it all comes down to the cost per token.<\/p> <p>&#8220;A lot of repetitive tasks can be done with a model that&#8217;s just as performant but has much lower cost per token&#8221; when compared with leading AI models, he said. &#8220;And this is essentially what has brought these open-weight models into the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said companies are shifting from &#8220;tokenmaxxing&#8221; \u2014 using as much AI as possible \u2014 to saving costs by limiting usage, switching to cheaper models or routing different types of AI work to different kinds of models.<\/p> <p>For research or &#8220;deep reasoning,&#8221; for instance, the cutting-edge models may perform better, said Su-Ortiz. &#8220;But if you&#8217;re routing for a coding task that is repetitive, high volume \u2026 that&#8217;s where one of our models, especially MiniMax M3, will perform exceptionally well at like only one-tenth the cost.&#8221; <\/p> <h3>Saving a few dollars isn&#8217;t worth it for everyone<\/h3> <p>For some companies, Chinese models still aren&#8217;t good enough. Jon Gordner is CEO and co-founder of Comment.io, which was founded just weeks ago and is developing a product that he said is like Google Docs for coders and AI agents.<\/p> <div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The human labor that makes AI work\" class=\"wp-image-5574\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/f2b93523dd5ffe735880e46ff9339a94-768x768.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/f2b93523dd5ffe735880e46ff9339a94-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/f2b93523dd5ffe735880e46ff9339a94-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/f2b93523dd5ffe735880e46ff9339a94-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/f2b93523dd5ffe735880e46ff9339a94.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n <div>\n<h3>It&#8217;s Been a Minute <\/h3>\n<h3>The human labor that makes AI work<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<!-- END CLASS=\"BUCKETBLOCK\" -->\n<\/div>\n<!-- END CLASS=\"BUCKET IMG\" -->\n<\/div>\n<!-- END ID=\"RESNX-S1-5886476-107\" CLASS=\"BUCKETWRAP INTERNALLINK INSETTWOCOLUMN INSET2COL \" -->\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Google chief executive Sundar Pichai speaks during the tech titan's annual I\/O developers conference on May 14, 2024, in Mountain View, California. Google on Tuesday said it would introduce AI-generated answers to online queries made by users in the United States, in one of the biggest updates to its search engine in 25 years. (Photo by Glenn CHAPMAN \/ AFP) (Photo by GLENN CHAPMAN\/AFP via Getty Images)\" class=\"wp-image-1230\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7a5db3800d85e935fcbd616f47b318da-768x512.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7a5db3800d85e935fcbd616f47b318da-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7a5db3800d85e935fcbd616f47b318da-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7a5db3800d85e935fcbd616f47b318da.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n <div>\n<h3>Business <\/h3>\n<h3>Ask AI or just Google it? Google makes a big change to a little search box<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<!-- END CLASS=\"BUCKETBLOCK\" -->\n<\/div>\n<!-- END CLASS=\"BUCKET IMG\" -->\n<\/div>\n<!-- END ID=\"RESNX-S1-5886476-108\" CLASS=\"BUCKETWRAP INTERNALLINK INSETTWOCOLUMN INSET2COL \" -->\n<p>&#8220;We need to make as good software as we can as fast as possible. And for us, saving a few dollars on a cheaper model isn&#8217;t worth it if we have to spend two or three more weeks fixing its mistakes,&#8221; he said.<\/p> <p>Gordner said his company is getting value out of Anthropic and OpenAI models in part because both companies are subsidizing users to hook customers. He said monthly subscriptions offer tokens at a huge discount now \u2014 but that probably won&#8217;t last forever.<\/p> <p>&#8220;Then for us, it&#8217;s going to make a lot more sense to start evaluating Chinese models and open-source models,&#8221; he said.<\/p> <p>Ara Kharazian is lead economist at Ramp, a company that helps businesses track, control and automate spending. It has insight into AI spending, and Kharazian said he thinks U.S. companies will keep adapting \u2014 in other words, they may keep prices in check or introduce high-quality open-source models in a bid to outcompete Chinese rivals.<\/p> <p>&#8220;The rise of these Chinese models is indicative of the fact that businesses want something that is today not being offered by the American model companies,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The only reason why I&#8217;m bearish about the Chinese models is because I assume that the American model companies will respond competitively.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Anthropic is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company founded in 2021.\" class=\"wp-image-1520\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/becbe56ba4488c482bf5c45af718638f-768x512.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/becbe56ba4488c482bf5c45af718638f-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/becbe56ba4488c482bf5c45af718638f-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/becbe56ba4488c482bf5c45af718638f.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n <div>\n<h3>Technology <\/h3>\n<h3>AI giant Anthropic prepares to sell stock to the public, files preliminary IPO paperwork<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<!-- END CLASS=\"BUCKETBLOCK\" -->\n<\/div>\n<!-- END CLASS=\"BUCKET IMG\" -->\n<\/div>\n<!-- END ID=\"RESNX-S1-5886476-109\" CLASS=\"BUCKETWRAP INTERNALLINK INSETTWOCOLUMN INSET2COL \" -->\n<p>Gordner, of Comment.io, is less certain. He thinks the major U.S. AI companies may have to start charging for AI as pressure to demonstrate profitability rises, possibly as they get closer to going public. Both Anthropic and OpenAI have filed confidential paperwork with the U.S. government to get the ball rolling on eventual initial public offerings.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/?p=5551\">Building things and breaking things in China (Summer School World Tour)<\/a><\/p> <p>&#8220;At some point,&#8221; Gordner said, &#8220;the music&#8217;s going to stop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI is a fast-growing business expense. 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