EP024: AI for Non-English Languages — Why Multilingual Support Is the Next Frontier

Over 60% of the world's internet users don't speak English as their first language — so how well do AI models actually perform in Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Hindi, and more? We break down multilingual performance across GPT-4o, Claude Opus 4, and Gemini 2.5 Pro, expose the hidden tokenization costs that inflate your API bills for non-English text, and give four practical strategies for building AI products that work globally. Plus: why DeepSeek V3 is the smart choice for Chinese-language workloads.