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Consider that the chinese might be misrepresenting their costs. A newsletter was implying that they might do it to undermine the sanctions justifications. Agree that the AI bubble should pop though and the earlier, the better.
Their model is open and they published paper describing it https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.19437 The can't be far off, or it would be noticed. Even if they are heavily government subsidized for energy and hardware, I don see how the cost of training in the US would be more than double.
Not saying they are lying, but there incentives.