While China's alternatives are cheaper, he pointed out the U.S. currently offers a more complete solution from chips to AI models. The subdued U.S. presence comes after Anthropic flip-flopped on its Fable AI model release due to abrupt U.S. policy changes, and new Chinese AI models have recently launched similar capabilities for far less. Later that day, the 21 member economies, including the U.S., agreed to back open-source AI with "strong security." With more than 1,300 living languages in Southeast Asia alone, just using a U.S. or Chinese AI model isn't as straightforward as it looks. Ting said entities in Southeast Asia tend to use Nvidia chips, especially for AI training, but may use other chips for running models.