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DeepSeek's new V3.2-Exp model cuts API pricing in half to less than 3 cents per 1M input tokens

DeepSeek continues to push the frontier of generative AI...in this case, in terms of affordability.The company has unveiled its latest experimental large language model (LLM), DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp, that mostly matches or slightly improves the benchmarks of its predecessor DeepSeek-3.1-Terminus, but more importantly, comes at a 50 percent reduced cost through DeepSeek's application programming interface (API), down to just $0.028 per million input tokens — and can keep costs down even when approaching the context limit of 128,000 tokens (about 300-400 pages worth of information).It's available through DeepSeek's first-party API, as well as the code downloadable under an open-source, enterprise-friendly MIT License on Hugging Face and GitHub.How did the company do it? Read on t [...]

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DeepSeek-V4 arrives with near state-of-the-art intelligence at 1/6th the cost of Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5

The whale has resurfaced. DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup offshoot of High-Flyer Capital Management quantitative analysis firm, became a near-overnight sensation globally in January 2025 with the rel [...]

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DeepSeek drops open-source model that compresses text 10x through images, defying conventions

DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence research company that has repeatedly challenged assumptions about AI development costs, has released a new model that fundamentally reimagines how large l [...]

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DeepSeek just dropped two insanely powerful AI models that rival GPT-5 and they're totally free

Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek released two powerful new AI models on Sunday that the company claims match or exceed the capabilities of OpenAI's GPT-5 and Google's Gemini- [...]

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OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 with native computer use mode, financial plugins for Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets

The AI updates aren't slowing down. Literally two days after OpenAI launched a new underlying AI model for ChatGPT called GPT-5.3 Instant, the company has unveiled another, even more massive upgr [...]

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Grok 4.1 Fast's compelling dev access and Agent Tools API overshadowed by Musk glazing

Elon Musk's frontier generative AI startup xAI formally opened developer access to its Grok 4.1 Fast models last night and introduced a new Agent Tools API—but the technical milestones were imm [...]

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xAI launches Grok 4.3 at an aggressively low price and a new, fast, powerful voice cloning suite

While Elon Musk faces off against his former colleague and OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman in court, Musk's rival firm xAI, founded to take on OpenAI, isn't slowing down on launching competitiv [...]

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Open source Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5 and V2.5-Pro are among the most efficient (and affordable) at agentic 'claw' tasks

Xiaomi, the Chinese firm best known for its smartphones and electric vehicles, has lately been shipping some incredibly affordable and high-powered open source AI large language models.The trend conti [...]

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MiniMax-M2 is the new king of open source LLMs (especially for agentic tool calling)

Watch out, DeepSeek and Qwen! There's a new king of open source large language models (LLMs), especially when it comes to something enterprises are increasingly valuing: agentic tool use — that [...]

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Google releases Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite at 1/8th the cost of Pro

Google's newest AI model is here: Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, and the biggest improvements this time around come in cost and speed, especially for enterprises and developers seeking to leverage powerf [...]

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