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Some large-scale AI models in China are 90% cheaper than those in the US; Chinese AI's high cost-effectiveness is capturing the US market.
According to a report by CNBC on July 7th, influenced by the continued price increases of models from leading US AI vendors, Chinese AI large-scale models are rapidly expanding their application scale in US enterprises due to their cost-effectiveness advantage. Industry insiders point out that the performance of some leading open-source and open weighted models in China is currently about 6 to 9 months behind the technology of top-tier US models such as OpenAI and Anthropic, while the price is 60% to 90% lower, and they can cover the vast majority of routine AI tasks, thus gaining popularity among US enterprises. According to statistics from the AI model aggregation platform OpenRouter, since February 8th of this year, the proportion of Chinese AI models used by US enterprises has exceeded 30% weekly, reaching a peak of 46%; while the average proportion in the previous 12 months was 11%. Another industry statistic shows that in the first week of the launch of Zhipu's latest large-scale model GLM 5.2, the daily average number of word calls increased by 27 times and the number of customers increased by 80 times, making it the fastest-deployed model on the platform in 2026; US AI startup Lindy has significantly reduced costs after switching all its AI business to DeepSeek models, and expects to save millions of dollars within a few months. (CCTV Finance)
Myanmar's AI-driven telecom fraud industry exposed: Starlink becomes key infrastructure, encrypted payments and OpenAI/Google models incorporated into toolchains.
A leaked investigative report from a Myanmar scam Odaily park reveals that global telecom fraud is rapidly evolving towards an "AI industrialization + cross-border encrypted payment" system. These fraud networks use cryptocurrencies to transfer funds and employ automated tools based on large models for multilingual script generation, identity spoofing, and emotional manipulation. The investigation shows that these systems heavily utilize OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini to support "large-scale social media fraud," while funds are rapidly laundered and transferred through on-chain payments and cross-border channels, forming a two-tiered structure of "AI customer acquisition + encrypted settlement," enabling the fraud industry to achieve high automation and transnational expansion capabilities. Furthermore, Elon Musk's Starlink has become the leading network service provider in the Myanmar scam industrial park, with US ISPs handling nearly one-fifth of the park's traffic. In response to the allegations, OpenAI stated that fraudsters using ChatGPT behave in a manner highly similar to ordinary users, making identification difficult. However, they have been using behavioral pattern recognition and risk control systems to ban approximately 100,000 suspicious accounts monthly. Google stated that its AI models have security safeguards in place and emphasized its commitment to "responsible AI development" to limit the use of tools for fraudulent and other illegal purposes. (Red Star News)