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DeepSeek made AI cheap. Now it is raising $8bn and buying robots
ThinkingNews Desk · how this was written
DeepSeek plans significant price increases across its services, currently charging $0.14 per 1 million input tokens and $0.28 per 1 million output tokens for V4 Flash. It also invested about $20.8 million in Unitree Robotics’ Shanghai IPO and will jointly develop AI models for humanoid machines.
Written from all 3 reports below, not from any single one.
How it was reported
- TechMeme·DeepSeek says it plans to implement substantial price increases across its services; it currently charges $0.14/1M input and $0.28/1M output tokens for V4 Flash (Bloomberg)
- The Next Web·DeepSeek warns of a ‘significant’ price rise, reversing its cheap-AI pitch
- TechMeme·Filing: DeepSeek has invested ~$20.8M in Unitree Robotics' Shanghai IPO and agreed to jointly develop AI models for humanoid machines (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)
- Hacker News·DeepSeek planning to significantly raise prices
- The Next Web·DeepSeek made AI cheap. Now it is raising $8bn and buying robots
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