AI Research Jul 31, 2026
DeepSeek Releases V4-Flash With Stronger Agent Capabilities and Lower Costs
DeepSeek officially released V4-Flash with enhanced autonomous agent capabilities and reduced API costs, sustaining China's aggressive frontier pace in the AI price war. The model targets agentic workloads at significantly lower prices than US competitors.
AI Business Jul 30, 2026
OpenAI Slashes GPT-5.6 Luna Prices by 80% in Aggressive Pricing Move
OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna API prices by 80% to $0.20 per million input tokens, matching DeepSeek's Chinese pricing. The move signals intensifying competition in the AI API market and a race to the bottom on inference costs.