Ronin (@DeRonin_) “My entire AI stack is now Chinese 🇨🇳 87% cheaper. same revenue swaps by task: 1.” — TopicDigg

My entire AI stack is now Chinese 🇨🇳 87% cheaper. same revenue swaps by task: 1. reasoning / backend brain Opus 4.8 → Kimi K2.7 benchmark gap: ~8% · price: ~11x cheaper 2. code generation GPT-5.5 → Qwen 3.7 Max benchmark gap: ~18% · price: ~7x cheaper 3. agent loops + tool calling Sonnet 4.7 → GLM 5.2 benchmark gap: ~3% · price: ~5x cheaper on input 4. cheap volume / bulk processing GPT-5.5 mini → MiMo V2.5 benchmark gap: ~6% · price: ~12x cheaper 5. image generation GPT-Image-2 → Wan 2.5 benchmark gap: ~5% · price: ~8x cheaper 6. video generation Sora 2 → Kling 3.0 benchmark gap: roughly equal · price: ~6x cheaper [ result after 30 days: ] operating costs dropped 87%, output quality dropped 4% on average, revenue unchanged the most important that these models will be not banned in a month and i can run them locally nobody will steal my data and i can learn them as i need full article drops tomorrow with: > exact routing logic per task type > the 2 cases where I still pay for American > the migration playbook anyone can copy in a weekend VERY IMPORTANT to get migrated now, while it's not too late