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US tech firms is cost-optimizing AI spend with Chinese models

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What happened: On June 26, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong posted on X that Coinbase is exploring how to keep AI costs low while token spend increases.

As part of this effort, the company is experimenting more heavily with Chinese models like Zhipu's GLM 5.2 and Kimi 2.7.

The result, according to Ar...