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companies are turning to Chinese AI providers as pricing from OpenAI and Anthropic moves higher.
Models released recently by DeepSeek and Z.ai are drawing assessments from many in the market that place them in direct competition with leading American frontier systems.
The competitive picture The working assumption entering this period was that American providers held an unchallenged quality lead over Chinese counterparts.
DeepSeek and Z.ai have both released models that a broad range of observers now judge as highly competitive with what OpenAI and Anthropic offer at the frontier.
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