Here's how someone who uses the full spectrum of AI models sees the landscape evolving. 80% of new AI startups are building on Chinese open-source models that outperform US alternatives on cost-efficiency by nearly 70%. Alex Shevchenko speaks from experience, not theory. And his take cuts against the fear narrative: the performance gap between open-weight and frontier models is shrinking to months, not years.

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