Deep Seek Announces Permanent 75% Price Cut for V4-Pro Model

Deep Seek, a Chinese AI startup, announced a permanent 75% price reduction for its flagship V4-Pro model, lowering prices to a quarter of their original levels. The company did not clarify if this reduction is linked to increased supplies of Huawei's Ascend 950 chips, which are crucial for enhancing the model's performance. The API costs for the V4-Pro now range from 0.025 to 6 yuan per million tokens, down from 0.1 to 24 yuan. The token serves as the basic unit for measuring the data processed by the AI model, making this price cut significant for competitive pricing in the market.