Back-to-back price cuts from China's top AI labs have made their models a fraction of the cost of GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus.

A 75% reduction highlights falling inference costs and challenges premium pricing from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

The Chinese startup lowered API prices for its DeepSeek-V4-Pro model to a fraction of OpenAI’s rates, intensifying the global AI pricing war as it seeks fresh capital at a…