Running Chinese LLMs at Scale: DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi & GLM

Running Chinese LLMs at Scale: DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi & GLM I've been running production workloads across multiple LLM providers for about three years now, and somewhere around mid-last year I started getting asked the same question over and over: "Should we be looking at Chinese models?" My initial reaction was skepticism. But after a few quarters of benchmarking, I owe an apology to my past self. The Chinese model ecosystem — DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, GLM — has matured into something that's…