American AI is expensive. Some startups are turning to cheap Chinese models

AI is a fast-growing business expense. Some companies are cutting costs by switching to cheaper Chinese AI models.

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AI is a fast-growing business expense. Some companies are cutting costs by switching to cheaper Chinese AI models. SAN FRANCISCO. Flo Crivello's San Francisco-based startup, Lindy.ai, creates artificial intelligence "assistants" to manage your email and calendar. At first, the company leaned heavily on Anthropic's top-of-the-line AI models. But in meeting after meeting with his finance guy, Crivello said, one thing became clear. "By far, our No. 1 expense was Anthropic," he said. So last month, Crivello announced that Lindy had migrated 100% of its traffic to the Chinese AI model DeepSeek-V4. "It was just 10x cheaper," he said, adding that it had saved the company millions of dollars.

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