Cheaper AI was already a major selling point for Chinese labs, and now they can add that they’re more reliable, says Catherine Thorbecke for Bloomberg Opinion. TOKYO: Ahead of its launch, Anthropic's most powerful artificial intelligence model, Mythos , was characterised by some in China as a “reverse DeepSeek” moment. It was a reminder that for all the hype around Chinese challengers, America’s leading AI firms were still on top. Yet somehow the botched rollout of Mythos and its defanged