{"id":909860,"date":"2025-02-27T11:18:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T05:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=909860"},"modified":"2025-02-27T11:18:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T05:48:04","slug":"deepseek-announces-75-off-peak-hours-sale-and-why-it-is-bad-news-for-its-rivals-in-the-us-and-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/02\/27\/deepseek-announces-75-off-peak-hours-sale-and-why-it-is-bad-news-for-its-rivals-in-the-us-and-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"DeepSeek announces 75% &#8216;Off peak&#8217; hours sale, and why it is &#8216;bad news&#8217; for its rivals in the US and Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has announced an off-peak discount program, offering up to 75% off on its advanced AI models, DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1. This move is set to disrupt the AI market, posing a significant challenge to rivals in the US and Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Starting today, DeepSeek&#8217;s API platform will provide substantial savings during specific hours. From 16:30 to 00:30 UTC daily, DeepSeek-V3 will be available at a 50% discount, while DeepSeek-R1 will see an impressive 75% price reduction. This initiative aims to encourage users to optimise resource usage and leverage cost-effective AI services during less busy periods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has announced an off-peak discount program, offering up to 75% off on its advanced AI models, DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1. This move is set to disrupt the AI market, posing a significant challenge to rivals in the US and Europe. Starting today, DeepSeek&#8217;s API platform will provide substantial savings during specific hours. From 16:30 to 00:30 UTC daily, DeepSeek-V3 will be available at a 50% discount, while DeepSeek-R1 will see an impressive 75% price reduction. This initiative aims to encourage users to optimise resource usage and leverage cost-effective AI services during less busy periods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-909860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909860","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}