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DeepSeek cuts V4 Pro price permanently, leveraging Huawei chips

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DeepSeek has permanently reduced the price of its V4 Pro model, making it significantly cheaper than competitors like GPT-4.5. This pricing strategy is enabled by their use of domestic Huawei chips for operation. The new pricing makes V4 Pro approximately 34.5 times more cost-effective for output tokens. AI

IMPACT This permanent price cut by DeepSeek, enabled by domestic chip usage, intensifies competition and could drive down costs for AI model deployment.

RANK_REASON A significant price reduction for a major AI model, impacting market competition. [lever_c_demoted from significant: ic=1 ai=0.7]

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DeepSeek cuts V4 Pro price permanently, leveraging Huawei chips

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  1. Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    DeepSeek made its V4 Pro discount permanent Saturday: $0.87/M output tokens, 34.5x cheaper than GPT-4.5. The math holds because they run on domestic Huawei chip

    DeepSeek made its V4 Pro discount permanent Saturday: $0.87/M output tokens, 34.5x cheaper than GPT-4.5. The math holds because they run on domestic Huawei chips and treat inference as commodity input. Western labs face a real pricing floor question. What changes when good-enough…

    LINKS implicator.ai/deepseek-just-froze-ai-pric…

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