There’s a key difference in how China and the US are integrating their latest AI models into consumer tech

Chinese tech giants are playing a different AI game.

US AI companies — like OpenAI and Anthropic — usually keep their most powerful models locked behind paywalls for consumers or license them to enterprises.

China’s biggest players, in contrast, are handing theirs out for free — and rolling them out across everyday tech at breakneck speed, Ray Wang, a Washington-based analyst who specializes in AI and US-China tech statecraft, told Business Insider.

Instead of…