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AI price war begins
The AI industry is entering a price war as users prioritize cost-effectiveness alongside capabilities. OpenAI and Anthropic lead with advanced models, but their higher costs, such as Anthropic's Fable being 50 times pricier than DeepSeek's V4, prompt customers to use cheaper open-source models for most tasks, saving up to 95%.
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