# Compute Efficiency

Beyond Benchmarks: China’s AI Sector Pivots to Extreme Efficiency and Real-World Utility

China's leading AI developers are shifting focus from parameter scale to extreme cost-efficiency and specialized agentic capabilities. By optimizing software for domestic hardware and slashing inference costs to a fraction of US prices, firms like DeepSeek and Moonshot AI are making high-end intelligence a low-cost commodity for global developers.