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　　Multiple foreign enterprises, including those from the US and the EU, are increasingly turning to Chinese artificial intelligence (AI)-powered large-language models (LLMs), with the share of tokens used by US firms on Chinese AI models reportedly hitting as high as 46 percent in the first half of 2026.

　　Attributing the trend to a combination of factors including cost-effectiveness, enhanced performance, open-source autonomy, and supply chain diversification, Chinese analysts said that they expect more foreign companies to adopt Chinese AI models.

　　DoorDash co-founder Andy Fang said last week that the US food delivery group now delegates "lower-level work" to Kimi K2.6, a model from Chinese start-up Moonshot AI, and reserves US AI tech firm Anthropic"s Fable for only "the hardest work," the Financial Times reported on Monday.

　　The new combination "vastly outperform[ed]… at a cheaper cost" than a previous setup that used only US frontier models from Anthropic, he said on X.

　　In addition, cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase"s CEO Brian Armstrong, in an X post on June 28, outlined five ways in which the crypto exchange was keeping AI costs low, including experimenting with Chinese LLMs as default options.

　　"We"re experimenting with defaulting to open-weight models like GLM 5.2 and Kimi 2.7 through our LLM gateway, while still encouraging engineers to choose the right model for the task," Armstrong wrote.

　　GLM 5.2 is a model developed by Chinese AI firm Z.ai.

　　In June, US AI start-up Lindy moved 100 percent of its traffic from Anthropic"s Claude models to DeepSeek V4 - an open-source model released by Chinese AI firm DeepSeek in April 2026.