So here's what happened: i Benchmarked China's Top 4 LLMs — The Numbers Don't Lie Last quarter I landed a consulting gig that needed me to route an entire product's inference layer through Chinese-developed models. The client didn't care about brand names — they cared about cost-per-token, p99 latency, and whether each model could actually pass their internal QA suite. So I spent six weeks running these models through Global API's unified endpoint, and the data told a much messier story than ...