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DeepSeek's 99% Output-Price Gap: What Cheap AI Changes
DeepSeek's updated V4 Flash coding and agent model costs $0.28 per million output tokens—about 99% below Anthropic Opus 4.8 for the same output quantity, according to Axios. That does not make the models equal, but it is a powerful sign that capable AI is becoming a commodity. In this episode, Dr. Mike explains what DeepSeek released, what its company-reported benchmarks do and do not prove, how the wider AI price war could affect ordinary software users, and why total task cost, privacy, energy, and human oversight matter more than a token price alone. Key takeaways: • DeepSeek V4 Flash…
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