@rohanpaul_ai: Reuters: DeepSeek just made its V4-Pro price cut permanent, pushing the price down to 25% of its original API cost. Dee…
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Reuters reports DeepSeek made its V4-Pro API price cut permanent, reducing cost to 25% of original, attributed to a shift from Nvidia to Huawei chips amid China's AI hardware strategy.
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Reuters: DeepSeek just made its V4-Pro price cut permanent, pushing the price down to 25% of its original API cost.
DeepSeek has not confirmed that better Ascend 950 supply caused the permanent cut, but the timing points to a cost curve moving downward as China’s AI stack shifts from restricted Nvidia chips toward Huawei hardware.
reuters. com/world/china/chinas-deepseek-make-permanent-75-price-cut-flagship-v4pro-ai-model-2026-05-23/
Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai): Great article here on DeepSeek.
Their real story is not cheaper chatbots, but architecture that turns hardware scarcity into strategy.
DeepSeek is not trying to sell coding seats, it is trying to make Chinese memory, accelerators, and systems useful for frontier AI.
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@seclink: Chinese startup DeepSeek announced on Friday that its 75% discount on the DeepSeek-V4-Pro API will become permanent, with prices as low as $0.003625 per million cached input tokens and $0.87 per million output tokens—approximately 34 times cheaper than OpenAI's GPT-5.5. The model has 1.6 trillion...
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