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AI Agents Now Outconsume Humans in Tokens, Fueling a Shift Toward Cheaper Chinese Models
Autonomous AI agents now generate five times more tokens than humans, pushing costs toward cheap Chinese models even as US labs still command most AI revenue. Autonomous AI agents now generate five times more tokens than humans, pushing costs toward cheap Chinese models even as US labs still command most AI revenue. Autonomous AI agents…
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The Word Factories of Ningxia: Why China’s Telecoms Took a Profit Hit to Chase AI Compute
Call it the barrel-of-oil moment for generative AI. China’s domestic AI inference reportedly costs one-tenth to one-sixth of overseas equivalents; the Economic Daily frames the resulting token exports as the nation’s answer to being called “the world’s factory:” not a nation that ships hardware, but one that ships intelligence.