A counterintuitive fact: the "discounted" salaries Chinese LLM companies offer AI engineers, after adjusting for living costs, may deliver purchasing power equivalent to one-third to half of Silicon Valley's — not the one-fifth the headline numbers suggest.
A fact systematically ignored by Western tech media: in Chinese developers' production environments, Qwen's adoption has already surpassed Llama, becoming the de facto open-source model standard.
Not because it has the most parameters. Because it does something Llama can't: efficient edge deployment.
Qwen’s true capabilities are often underestimated by the mainstream. While everyone is focused on consumer chatbots, Qwen is quietly dominating the hardware and enterprise infrastructure space. Here is why it’s a hidden giant in the AI race: