{"id":609234,"date":"2026-04-27T12:43:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T12:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/609234\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T12:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T12:43:15","slug":"chinas-deepseek-slashes-prices-for-new-ai-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/609234\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s DeepSeek slashes prices for new AI model"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">April 27 (Reuters) &#8211; China&#8217;s DeepSeek is offering developers a 75% discount \u200con its newly unveiled AI \u200cmodel, DeepSeek-V4-Pro, until May 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The company is \u200balso cutting prices for input cache hits across its entire DeepSeek API lineup to one-tenth of the \u200coriginal price, \u2060it said in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">On Friday, DeepSeek launched \u2060a preview of its highly anticipated V4 model, which has been \u200badapted for \u200bHuawei&#8217;s chip \u200btechnology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">V4 comes in \u200ctwo versions: the more powerful and higher priced Pro, and the lighter, cheaper Flash variant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The Pro version outperforms other open-source models in world-knowledge \u200cbenchmarks, trailing only \u200bGoogle&#8217;s closed-source Gemini-Pro-3.1, DeepSeek \u200bsaid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">According \u200bto the Chinese startup, the \u200cV4 models are particularly \u200bsuited \u200bto AI agent work, which can execute more complex tasks than \u200bchatbots but \u200crequire greater computing power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting by \u200bDisha Mishra in Bengaluru; Editing \u200bby Sumana Nandy)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 27 (Reuters) &#8211; China&#8217;s DeepSeek is offering developers a 75% discount \u200con its newly unveiled AI \u200cmodel,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,144,18732,74],"class_list":["post-609234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-china","tag-deepseek","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}