Qwen Slashes Voice Model Prices by Up to 95%
Alibaba's Qwen released five Audio-3.1 voice models and cut TTS, realtime, and ASR pricing by up to 95%, challenging ElevenLabs on cost.
AI Price War News and Analysis
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OpenAI Used Its Own AI Models to Design a Chip in 9 Months
OpenAI's CFO says in-house AI models helped design its Jalapeno inference chip in just 9 months, as Luna's price cuts fuel a wider AI price war.
AI Short-Drama Prices Crash to a Few Hundred Yuan Per Minute
China's AI short-drama pricing has crashed from 5,000 yuan to a few hundred yuan per minute as the market surges 138% year over year.
LLM Token Price Index Drops Below $1, Half Its Summer Peak
Silicon Data's LLM token price index closed below $1 for the first time, down more than half from its summer peak, squeezing frontier labs' margins ahead of IPO season.
DeepSeek Makes V4-Pro Discount Permanent, Slashing Prices 75%
DeepSeek has permanently set V4-Pro API prices at 75% off, locking in $0.87 per million output tokens and challenging rivals.
DeepSeek Cuts V4-Pro Price by 75% Within 72 Hours of Launch
DeepSeek slashed the price of its V4-Pro model by 75% and cut cache-hit pricing across its entire API to one-tenth, just 72 hours after the preview release, intensifying the AI price war.