{"id":456420,"date":"2026-05-23T16:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T16:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/456420\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T16:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T16:29:09","slug":"chinas-deepseek-to-make-permanent-75-price-cut-on-flagship-v4-pro-ai-model-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/456420\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s DeepSeek to make permanent 75% price cut on flagship V4\u2011Pro AI model"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">May 23 (Reuters) &#8211; Chinese <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:artificial intelligence;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;artificial intelligence&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence<\/a> startup DeepSeek will make permanent a 75% price cut on \u200cits flagship V4\u2011Pro artificial intelligence model, keeping \u200cprices at a quarter of their original level, the company said \u200bin a statement on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">DeepSeek did not disclose whether the permanent price cut was due to increased supply of Huawei\u2019s Ascend 950 chips, which it used to \u200cmaximize V4\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The \u2060company cut V4\u2011Pro API costs to between 0.025 and 6 yuan per million tokens (about $0.0035 \u2060to $0.83) depending on usage type, from 0.1 to 24 yuan previously, the statement said. A \u201ctoken\u201d is a unit \u200bof text \u200bprocessed by the AI \u200bmodel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Huawei\u2019s AI chip sales \u200chave benefited from U.S. export controls that prevent <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/NVDA\/\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:Nvidia;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Nvidia&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" target=\"_blank\">Nvidia<\/a> from selling its most advanced semiconductors in China, although separate curbs on chipmaking equipment exports have limited Huawei\u2019s ability to scale up Ascend production.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">When DeepSeek launched \u200cV4 last month, it said \u200bthe Pro version would cost \u200bup to 12 \u200btimes more than the less powerful Flash \u200cversion due to \u201cconstraints in high-end \u200bcompute capacity,\u201d \u200blimiting availability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">It also said Pro pricing was expected to fall sharply once Huawei Ascend 950 supernodes are \u200blaunched in \u200clarge quantities in the second half of the \u200byear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting by Abu Sultan in Bengaluru and \u200bEduardo Baptista,Editing by Tomasz Janowski)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 23 (Reuters) &#8211; Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek will make permanent a 75% price cut on \u200cits&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":["post-456420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}