Last week, I followed minkmax for several reasons:

1. Peking University's cost advantage: the price of green electricity in the western regions is one-third of that in the West, and token prices can be 16 times lower than Claude, which is very attractive.
2. China doesn't stack cards; it stacks distilled models and focuses on algorithms, thus reducing the unit computational power consumption from the inference framework model.
3. Minimax was boosted on OpenRouter, allowing many Americans/Koreans who can't afford it to also enjoy the benefits of the old Chinese model.