DeepSeek releases V4 model with claimed near state-of-the-art performance at significantly lower cost than Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5—approximately one-sixth the price of leading competitors. Cost-efficiency gains in LLM development remain a competitive focus across the industry.
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DeepSeek-V4 arrives with near state-of-the-art intelligence at 1/6th the cost of Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5
DeepSeek's V4 delivers frontier-tier AI capabilities at one-sixth the cost of Opus 4.7, intensifying the cost-per-capability arms race between Chinese and Western AI labs.
Friday, April 24, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: VentureBeatBY sys://pipeline
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