DeepSeek just made its 75% price cut permanent.
Western AI companies spent years teaching users that intelligence must be expensive, metered, limited, and wrapped in subscription anxiety.
China looked at that and said: No. Make it cheaper. Make it faster. Make it available. Make intelligence infrastructure.
This is why they panic.
Not because China is “dumping.” Not because China is “subsidizing.” But because China keeps turning monopolies into commodities.
First solar panels. Then EVs. Then drones. Then GPUs. Now AI tokens.
The West wanted AI to be a gated cathedral. China is turning it into electricity.
And when intelligence becomes cheap, the priesthood loses power.
Next Western headline:
“China’s AI overcapacity threatens the global model-pricing order.”
First solar panels. Then EVs. Then drones. Then GPUs. Now AI tokens.
China is doing more for my cost of living than my own government.
Facts.
I usually don’t trust LLMs for shit but recently I used Deepseek with search + think mode for translating specific slang terms and researching a poorly a documented API and I was impressed by how it scanned through many actual web pages that were impossible to reach via search engines
Honestly it helps a lot that deepseek is open source ngl.
And yet people in the west continue to use ChatGPT. It boggles my mind
“But I pay a premium for it. Therefore, it is superior.”
RIP Scam altman
Do they need to extract money from their consumers for their operation? Many American IT companies can extract the data from their consumers and sell it to a third-party for profit. They can continue to make profit from some of their services without paid subscription as long as they can get their consumers to agree that their usage data will be collected by the service providers.
