{"id":1027867,"date":"2026-08-11T07:55:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T02:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027867"},"modified":"2026-08-11T07:57:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T02:27:26","slug":"chinese-ai-drives-price-competition-among-us-labs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/11\/chinese-ai-drives-price-competition-among-us-labs\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese AI drives price competition among US labs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence (AI) users are shopping around as US giants face fierce competition from Chinese rivals &#8212; and in Beijing&#8217;s tech district, drinkers at an AI-themed bar can even plug in to DeepSeek for free. <\/p>\n<p>A new generation of cost-efficient, high-performance Chinese AI is putting pressure on Silicon Valley&#8217;s leading labs to lower prices to grab market share as they try and find ways to turn a profit. <\/p>\n<p>ChatGPT maker OpenAI has slashed fees by 80% for its latest lightweight model &#8220;Luna&#8221;, and Anthropic has unveiled a model approaching its most powerful system&#8217;s performance at half the price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence (AI) users are shopping around as US giants face fierce competition from Chinese rivals &#8212; and in Beijing&#8217;s tech district, drinkers at an AI-themed bar can even plug in to DeepSeek for free. A new generation of cost-efficient, high-performance Chinese AI is putting pressure on Silicon Valley&#8217;s leading labs to lower prices to grab market share as they try and find ways to turn a profit. ChatGPT maker OpenAI has slashed fees by 80% for its latest lightweight model &#8220;Luna&#8221;, and Anthropic has unveiled a model approaching its most powerful system&#8217;s performance at half the price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027892,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027867\/revisions\/1027892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}