{"id":488432,"date":"2026-06-08T03:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T03:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/488432\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T03:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T03:51:10","slug":"deepseek-v4-forces-rivals-to-slash-prices-rattling-chinas-cloud-providers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/488432\/","title":{"rendered":"DeepSeek V4 forces rivals to slash prices, rattling China\u2019s cloud providers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Chinese artificial intelligence developers are rapidly overhauling their pricing strategies as DeepSeek\u2019s ultra-cheap V4 models trigger a new round of competition, forcing rivals to rethink how they monetise AI in a cutthroat domestic market.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Smartphone and electric-vehicle maker Xiaomi has emerged as one of the latest companies to respond, slashing application programming interface (API) costs for its MiMo-V2.5 model by as much as 99 per cent from previous levels.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Usage of Xiaomi\u2019s MiMo-V2.5 and MiMo-V2.5-Pro models surged following last week\u2019s pricing announcement, with MiMo-V2.5 climbing to sixth place on US-based model marketplace OpenRouter. The model processed 1.7 trillion tokens in the seven days to Monday, representing growth of more than 999 per cent from the previous week.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Other Chinese AI firms are experimenting with different approaches to monetisation.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The transition has not been without friction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese artificial intelligence developers are rapidly overhauling their pricing strategies as DeepSeek\u2019s ultra-cheap V4 models trigger a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,576,72,114,113,240,61,60,166,43,387,10178,850,80,90,386],"class_list":["post-488432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-asia","tag-business","tag-china","tag-economy","tag-hong-kong","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lifestyle","tag-news","tag-opinion","tag-south-china-morning-post","tag-sport","tag-technology","tag-us","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}