US tech firms embracing Chinese AI models to cut token cost: Vembu

Zoho Co-founder Sridhar Vembu said major American software companies are embracing Chinese open-source artificial intelligence models to reduce the token expenses. "Databricks is embracing Chinese open source model GLM-5.2. Earlier, Microsoft said they were looking to embrace DeepSeek," Vembu said. "I have long advocated using the Chinese models running in one's own infrastructure," he added.