AI for Humans · Wednesday, July 1, 2026
There's a notable trend of users and companies shifting towards Chinese AI models, such as GLM, due to restricted access to cutting-edge Western models like OpenAI's and Anthropic's. This shift is driven by the perception that Chinese models offer comparable performance at a lower cost, potentially impacting the global AI market share.
“Everybody else is talking about this GLM model. This other model that came out of China that punches at the weight of the foundational models that we have access to from Anthropic and from Open AI.”
“here state side, everybody seems to be jumping ship to adopt these Chinese models through open router or to run them locally on their machine. And they're cutting their inference costs. They're dramatically cutting millions of dollars out of their AI spend.”
“Like China is very much winning on the AI content side, in part because of some of the decisions they've made.”