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A price war has opened between OpenAI and Anthropic, two of the largest American artificial intelligence developers, after Chinese competitors applied new pressure on their business.
A price war means a cycle of competing cost reductions where each company cuts prices to keep users from moving to a cheaper alternative. Both firms released cheaper models in response.
For a reporter who watches physical markets, a price cut tells you something about what is moving through the infrastructure. In AI, that infrastructure is data center compute.
Price cuts that reflect genuine reductions in the cost of running a model are one thing. Cuts made to hold market share against a cheaper rival are another.
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