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DeepSeek breaks China’s AI price war with peak-hour surge pricing

DeepSeek will double the price of its V4 AI models during peak hours from mid-July, reversing the China price war it started. Even the cheapest blinks.

After triggering price war, DeepSeek reverses course with surcharge on peak-hour API use

DeepSeek triggered a price war in May when it announced a permanent 75 per cent discount on V4 API access Chinese artificial ...
VentureBeat

DeepSeek-V4 arrives with near state-of-the-art intelligence at 1/6th the cost of Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5

On standard, cache-miss pricing, DeepSeek-V4-Pro comes in at roughly one-seventh the cost of GPT-5.5 and about one-sixth (1/6th) the cost of Claude Opus 4.7. With cached input, the gap widens: ...
DIGITIMES

DeepSeek V4 introduces utility-style AI pricing in shift beyond China's LLM price war

DeepSeek will launch the official version of its V4 large language model (LLM) in mid-July alongside peak and off-peak API ...

Another DeepSeek moment? What's really behind the tech sell-off

Tech stocks are selling off Friday, continuing a poor week, and there could be more to the rout than meets the eye. The ...

Chinese AI Models Challenge OpenAI and Anthropic on Cost and Enterprise Risk

Chinese AI models are challenging OpenAI and Anthropic on cost, but enterprises must weigh lower prices against security, ...
TechNode

DeepSeek to launch V4 in mid-July with new peak-time API pricing

The DeepSeek team announced on Monday that the official release of DeepSeek V4 is scheduled for mid-July. According to the company, the new version builds on the existing preview release with further ...
Digi Times

Microsoft considers DeepSeek as OpenAI costs mount

Microsoft is reportedly considering introducing a fine-tuned version of the Chinese open-source model DeepSeek V4 into its enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) tool Copilot Cowork, as a lower-cost ...