Chinese AI lab DeepSeek massively undercuts OpenAI on pricing

• DeepSeek has rolled out AI models that are a lot cheaper than OpenAI’s offerings.
• AI models are mostly trained on public data, making differentiation challenging.
• DeepSeek’s open-source models challenge OpenAI’s proprietary approach.

The cost of using AI models has been plunging as competition intensifies and it becomes increasingly easy to catch, match, and even beat the top-performing offerings.

Having a leading AI model is nowhere near as special as it was…