Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said Coinbase is experimenting with defaulting to Chinese open-weight models such as GLM 5.2 and Kimi 2.7 through its LLM gateway, while routing prompts by difficulty.
He explicitly says frontier models may be needed for planning but can be “overkill” for execution.
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