DeepSeek V4 forces rivals to slash prices, rattling China’s cloud providers
Chinese artificial intelligence developers are rapidly overhauling their pricing strategies as DeepSeek’s ultra-cheap V4 models trigger a new round of competition, forcing rivals to rethink how they monetise AI in a cutthroat domestic market. Smartphone and electric-vehicle maker Xiaomi has emerged as one of the latest companies to respond, slashing application programming interface (API) costs for its MiMo-V2.5 model by as much as 99 per cent from previous levels. Usage of Xiaomi’s MiMo-V2.5...
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DeepSeek V4 forces rivals to slash prices, rattling China’s cloud providers Why it matters: LLMs is moving the AI stack right now, and this update helps explain what changed for builders. Source: South China Morning Post https://a2zai.ai/bytes/deepseek-v4-forces-rivals-to-sl...
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