The Singularity now ships in two SKUs — American frontier performance and Chinese frontier pricing. A fresh data audit settles the summer’s central question, and reveals why the price war matters more than the benchmark race.
America wanted Asia to use its AI — then it went quiet and raised its walls. Even Google didn’t lead with Gemini in Chengdu. This is what surrendering the world’s largest AI market looks like, one unattended forum at a time.
A 1,400-fold explosion in two years. 140 trillion tokens a day. 100,000 derivative models. The West argues over who has the best AI — China just proved whose AI is actually being used.