Ross: Chinese AI models cost 10x more to run than US open-source
Jonathan Ross · Groq Founder, Jonathan Ross: OpenAI & Anthropic Will Build Their Own Chips & Will NVIDIA Hit $10TRN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Sep 29, 2025 · at 30:11
Jonathan Ross, Founder & CEO of Groq, addresses market perceptions of Chinese AI models, arguing that while they were optimized to be cheap to train, their operational inference costs are dramatically higher.
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“The cost to run the OSS model is about one-tenth that of the Chinese models.”
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