Alibaba Qwen3.5 Challenges OpenAI Dominance in AI Race
Open-weight AI with 17B active parameters delivers 60% cost savings and 8x throughput—redefining what free models can do
Cost Efficiency - Latest News & Analysis
In-depth coverage, analysis, and updates on Cost Efficiency in AI and tech. 5 articles on AI Pulse.
MiniMax M2.5: China's Cheap AI Engineer Changes Everything
New model achieves 80.2% on SWE-Bench at one-tenth the cost of Claude Opus, forcing Western companies to rethink their AI pricing strategies
China's DeepSeek R2 Shocks the Industry—Again
Trained for $8M. Matches GPT-5 on reasoning. Open-weights. The cost efficiency gap with US labs is getting embarrassing.
DeepSeek Trained a GPT-4 Competitor for $6 Million
China's open-source AI lab spent 1/15th what OpenAI did. The 'Sputnik moment' is real.
DeepSeek R2 Matches o1 on Math at 1/10th the Cost
Chinese lab's reasoning model threatens OpenAI's premium pricing. Available via API today.