That viewpoint was completely different from what I heard from the executives I met in Asia. Here, the concern was much more about having control over both data and costs. On these metrics, open source models tended to win out. Jinhui Yuan, the cofounder and CEO of SiliconFlow, a leading Chinese AI cloud hosting service, said that his company had developed numerous techniques to run open source models more cost-effectively, meaning using them to accomplish a task was significantly cheaper than trying to do ...