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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 ...
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DeepSeek slashes API prices by 90% as AI-mad enterprises embrace 'tokenmaxxing'

DeepSeek fired a warning shot at AI rivals by slashing API prices up to 90% amid soaring enterprise token usage. The South China Morning Post reports that DeepSeek slashed prices on inputs for its ...

DeepSeek V4 forces rivals to slash prices, rattling China’s cloud providers

DeepSeek’s pricing shock is rippling through China’s AI sector, pressuring rivals and unsettling cloud providers.

DeepSeek open sources DSpark, a new framework to speed up LLM inference by up to 85%

DSpark can make decoding faster, but acceptance quality still determines how much speed the system actually realizes.
ExchangeWire

Digest: Apple & EU Hold Siri AI Talks; DeepSeek Introduces Peak-Hour API Pricing

In today’s Digest, we cover Apple and the EU holding talks over Siri’s AI rollout, DeepSeek introducing peak-hour API pricing ...
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 ...
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DeepSeek Releases DSpark: Speculative Decoding Makes V4 Up to 85 Percent Faster

In this photo illustration, the DeepSeek app is displayed on an iPhone screen on January 27, 2025 in San Anselmo, California. Newly launched Chinese AI app DeepSeek has surged to number one in Apple's ...