BlockBeats News, July 15th. An increasing number of Indian tech companies are turning to Chinese Artificial Intelligence (AI) large models, attracting the attention of the Indian media. "Quiet Shift: Indian Developers Favor Chinese AI." The Indian newspaper Times of Telugu recently reported on this. Within Indian tech companies, a more pragmatic story is unfolding: faced with the high cost of American AI services, Indian developers are quietly turning to models developed in China that are more cost-effective and openly available.

The report cited a specific Chinese AI large model as an example, stating that its input price ranges from $0.19 to $1.74 per million Tokens (the smallest unit of information processed by the large model), and the output price ranges from $0.51 to $5.40 per million Tokens. In comparison, the input price of OpenAIGPT-5.5 ranges from $5 to $12 per million Tokens, while the output price ranges from $30 to $54 per million Tokens.