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Where each lab is strong, where it is weak, and what its release cadence tells you: the Chinese and Western ecosystems covered with equal depth.
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A local region doesn't mean local inference, a rand invoice doesn't mean rand exposure, and POPIA doesn't require in-country processing. The three questions South African teams should answer before committing to an AI provider.
Token prices converted to rands are the start of an AI budget, not the end of it. Where the gap opens between the pricing page and the invoice — output ratios, context re-billing, agent loops, forex, card fees and VAT.
Several of the fastest-moving open-weights releases of the last two years came out of Chinese labs. Ignoring them means overpaying for capability you could have had. A field guide to the ecosystem most Western tooling still treats as an afterthought.