China’s budget AIs are trouncing ChatGPT and Grok at crypto trading

DeepSeek was the only AI model to generate a positive return on Wednesday, despite having the smallest development budget among its peers.

Chinese artificial intelligence models are outperforming their United States counterparts in cryptocurrency trading, according to data from blockchain analytics platform CoinGlass, as competition between leading generative AI chatbots intensifies.

AI chatbotsDeepSeek and Qwen3 Max, both developed in China, led the ongoing crypto trading experiment on Wednesday, with the former being the only AI model to generate a positive unrealized return of 9.1%.

Qwen3, an AI model developed by Alibaba Cloud, came in second with a 0.5% unrealized loss, followed by Grok with a 1.24% unrealized loss, according to blockchain data platform CoinGlass.

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