Australia’s Biggest Pension Fund Mulls Chinese AI as Costs Spike
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AustralianSuper burning through coding tokens in three days and now eyeing Chinese models for cost relief shows how quickly usage can outrun budgets and push buyers toward geopolitically sensitive vendors. If you’re scaling AI use, you need a unit economics model and a sanctions/export-control filter before procurement, not after.
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