Wall Street Journal: How US companies flipped from “tokenmaxxing” to “thrift-maxxing”, mixing cheaper Chinese models with OpenAI and Anthropic, threatening the labs' IPO valuations — Companies big and small are mixing models and it's changing the economics and power players of the industry
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July 27, 2026 at 2:45 AM
How US companies flipped from "tokenmaxxing" to "thrift-maxxing", mixing cheaper Chinese models with OpenAI and Anthropic, threatening the labs' IPO valuations (Wall Street Journal)
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