alt Hacker NewsBecause claude subscription tokens are cheaper than deepseek and friends. You have whole industry of people reselling Claude subscriptions in China.
Can you comprehend than Anthropic is winning because is both cheap(subscriptions) and better SOTA. People are cheering China providers when I reality they would rugpull open weights the moment they are competive.
China models are trash that why they are giving them away for free.
For individuals and small companies subscriptions is the best deal, for big companies china models are big no unless they can host them.
Not sure why you're being downvoted for being objectively correct.
HN is full of contrarians and folks who don't know what they're talking about in regards to AI.