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DeepSeek is steeply raising the prices for its flagship V4 models, bringing the low-cost provider\u2019s rates closer to those of major artificial intelligence rivals.<\/p>\n

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A new peak-hour pricing will increase the Chinese company\u2019s rates by more than four times from the current levels, according to a post\u00a0on its website\u00a0Thursday. The price increases will take effect on Aug. 16.<\/p>\n

Going forward, users will pay $1.32 for 1 million output tokens during peak hours, and half that during off-peak hours, for the DeepSeek-V4-Flash model. That\u2019s up from $0.28 for 1 million tokens previously.<\/p>\n

The increase still leaves DeepSeek\u2019s pricing below that of some of its main competitors. Anthropic PBC\u2019s state-of-the-art Fable 5 service sets that pricing at $50. DeepSeek gave an\u00a0advance warning\u00a0last week that it would hike prices, without specifying the exact increases.<\/p>\n

DeepSeek\u2019s V4-Pro model will cost $3.96 for 1 million tokens at peak hours and half that at non-peak hours, it said. That\u2019s up from the current $0.87 per million tokens.<\/p>\n

The Hangzhou-based AI lab said it\u2019s revising and adjusting the pricing \u201cto allocate resources more reasonably.\u201d The dynamic pricing strategy is designed to encourage developers and enterprises to shift their work to less congested periods.<\/p>\n

DeepSeek\u2019s strategy has sparked a global debate in recent weeks over the cost of high-performing AI tools. Its pricing has been so far out of the usual range for AI models that it has prompted the idea of a DeepSeek \u201cdeath zone,\u201d where costlier or less capable models would be obviated. It\u2019s also raised questions about the initial public offering plans of OpenAI and Anthropic because of the risks the firm poses to their profits and business models.<\/p>\n

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DeepSeek is in the middle of a massive fundraising and has begun preparations for an initial public offering as soon as this year, Bloomberg\u00a0has reported. Founder Liang Wenfeng will for the first time need to balance investor expectations, rapid market expansion and the intense capital demands of building out costly computing infrastructure.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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