Rise of Chinese open-weight models reshapes AI economics

A Natixis CIB analysis says Chinese open-weight models from DeepSeek, Alibaba, Z.ai and Moonshot are approaching leading Western systems at far lower prices. It argues the AI market is splitting into tiers, with efficiency innovations such as efficient attention, mixture-of-experts and multi-token prediction driving competitiveness rather than raw compute alone.

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