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Market Chatter: DeepSeek to Slash AI Model Price by 75%

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DeepSeek said it will permanently reduce pricing for its flagship V4-Pro model to one-quarter of original levels, now ranging from 0.025 yuan to 6 yuan per million tokens, Reuters reported Saturday.

The Chinese artificial intelligence company didn't confirm if increased supply of Huawei's Ascend 950 chips enabled the price cut, according to the report.

U.S. export restrictions on Nvidia chips have boosted Huawei's AI chip sales, though equipment curbs still limit Ascend production scaling, Reuters wrote. DeepSeek previously cited high-end compute constraints for premium pricing.

(Market Chatter news is derived from conversations with market professionals globally. This information is believed to be from reliable sources but may include rumor and speculation. Accuracy is not guaranteed.)

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