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African businesses use Chinese AI models amid US China rivalry

Curacel said Chinese models can deliver comparable results at lower cost for high volume tasks, while Western systems remain stronger for the hardest reasoning work.

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The South China Morning Post reports that some African businesses are taking a pragmatic approach to artificial intelligence adoption as US China competition intensifies, using Chinese models where they offer better value or flexibility while keeping other options open.

Housing and finance focused example comes from Curacel, an African insurtech platform that expanded the range of AI models powering its internal infrastructure without relying solely on Silicon Valley.

According to the outlet, Curacel chief executive and co-founder Henry Mascot said Chinese models delivered comparable results at lower cost on high volume tasks such as coding, data extraction, classification, and customer support.

Mascot also said Western systems still tend to be stronger for the most demanding reasoning and reliability sensitive work, and that Curacel can route suitable workloads to different models based on quality and cost without moving an entire stack or locking into one vendor.

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