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 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.

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.
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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 ...
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 ...
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DeepSeek slashes V4-Pro AI model prices by 75% amid fierce competition

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has cut prices for its new V4-Pro model by 75% until May 5 and reduced API cache-hit costs across its lineup to one-tenth of previous rates. The move, part of a preview ...

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.
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DeepSeek has an ‘API request’ for its customers: “…please understand!”

DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup, is temporarily restricting access to its API due to high demand and limited server capacity. They have suspended adding credits to API accounts to prevent service ...