iFlytek enters China's AI language model price war

iFlytek enters China's AI language model price war

An iFlytek company sign is seen at the Appliance and Electronics World Expo (AWE) in Shanghai, China March 23, 2021. REUTERS/Aly Song

Artificial intelligence (AI) firm iFlytek on Wednesday entered a brewing price war between some of China’s biggest tech companies, after it made some versions of its “Spark” large-language model (LLM) free or five times cheaper than similar products from competitors.