Alvin Foo(@alvinfoo):DeepSeek’s bar on that Bloomberg chart is so flat it looks like a rounding error. Chinese labs are shipping frontier-level models at prices that make GPT-5.6 and Claude look like luxury goods. This isn’t just competition, it’s a full-on price war that’s turning the API market into a death zone for anyone still charging Western rates.

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Alvin Foo@alvinfoo

2026.08.04 07:45

DeepSeek’s bar on that Bloomberg chart is so flat it looks like a rounding error. Chinese labs are shipping frontier-level models at prices that make GPT-5.6 and Claude look like luxury goods. This isn’t just competition, it’s a full-on price war that’s turning the API market into a death zone for anyone still charging Western rates.