Telugu Times reports an increasing number of Indian tech firms are adopting
Chinese AI large models, citing cost and public availability. The report gives
example pricing for a Chinese model at USD 0.19–1.74 per MLN input tokens and
USD 0.51–5.40 per MLN output tokens, versus OpenAI GPT-5.5 at USD 5–12 per MLN
input tokens and USD 30–54 per MLN output tokens.