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The author argues that Anthropic's call for a pause in AI development is a cover story to eventually ban Chinese AI models under the guise of security, as Chinese models like Deepseek, Minimax, Kimi, and Qwen are catching up at a fraction of the cost.
Analysis of OpenRouter data shows that Chinese AI models have become the most used in Kilo Code's coding agent, accounting for 58% of token usage, challenging the dominance of Claude and GPT due to lower cost and longer context windows.
Qwen 3.6 Max Preview launched on Qwen Chat website, achieving the highest AA-Intelligence Index score (52) among Chinese models, with uncertainty about whether it will be open source.