DeepSeek made its V4-Pro 75% price cut permanent on May 22. The conventional read: "they got cheaper hardware." The real story is more interesting — and it's about a gap that's not closing fast enough.
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DeepSeek made its V4-Pro 75% price cut permanent on May 22. The conventional read: "they got cheaper...
DeepSeek made its V4-Pro 75% price cut permanent on May 22. The conventional read: "they got cheaper hardware." The real story is more interesting — and it's about a gap that's not closing fast enough.
What Happened
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Deepseek makes its 75 percent discount permanent, pricing output tokens at least 34x below GPT-5.5

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