Reuters: DeepSeek just made its V4-Pro price cut permanent, pushing the price down to 25% of its original API cost.
DeepSeek has not confirmed that better Ascend 950 supply caused the permanent cut, but the timing points to a cost curve moving downward as China’s AI stack shifts from restricted Nvidia chips toward Huawei hardware.
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reuters. com/world/china/chinas-deepseek-make-permanent-75-price-cut-flagship-v4pro-ai-model-2026-05-23/
