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wg0today at 4:16 PM8 repliesview on HN

Notice the pattern that Chinese providers are now:

1. Keeping models closed source.

2. Jacking up pricing. A lot. Sometimes up to 100% increase.


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embedding-shapetoday at 4:18 PM

Huh yeah, that's truly a unique trait these Chinese companies don't share with companies in other countries.

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niccetoday at 6:20 PM

> Jacking up pricing. A lot. Sometimes up to 100% increase.

How is that different from American?

Tepixtoday at 5:17 PM

Are you talking about GLM 5.1, DeepSeek V3.2 or Kimi K2.6 (released one hour ago!)?

Oh wait, it doesn't apply to those…

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OtomotOtoday at 4:24 PM

US companies hate that trick?!

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cute_boitoday at 4:20 PM

Well, they can't subsidize forever. And, it is kinda expected?

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cnlwsutoday at 5:20 PM

what only Oracle can do it?

throwaway613746today at 5:48 PM

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ai_fry_ur_braintoday at 5:00 PM

Yeah, its almost like the casinos started rigging the game after they got all the addicts hooked. Who saw that coming???

If you overuse LLMs or get excited about them at all, you're ngmi and a complete idiot.