@rohanpaul_ai: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said Coinbase is experimenting with defaulting to Chinese open-weight models such as GLM 5…
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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announced the company is experimenting with using Chinese open-weight AI models like GLM 5.2 and Kimi 2.7 for its LLM gateway, routing prompts by difficulty, suggesting that frontier models may be overkill for execution tasks.
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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said Coinbase is experimenting with defaulting to Chinese open-weight models such as GLM 5.2 and Kimi 2.7 through its LLM gateway, while routing prompts by difficulty.
He explicitly says frontier models may be needed for planning but can be “overkill” for execution.
businessinsider. com/coinbase-ceo-brian-armstrong-low-ai-spend-maintain-token-usage-2026-6
Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai): Opinion from a former Meta PM.
And this is from Aravind Srinivas of Perplexity “China can build data centers a lot faster. Power is not a problem. Permits are not a problem. People are not a problem. Labor is not a problem. Expertise is not a problem.”
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