{"id":155874,"date":"2026-08-10T13:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155874"},"modified":"2026-08-10T13:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:30:06","slug":"enterprise-ai-costs-hit-2026-low-driven-by-price-wars-chinese-open-source-models-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155874","title":{"rendered":"Enterprise AI costs hit 2026 low driven by price wars, Chinese open-source models: research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostThe cost for businesses to run AI models has fallen to a yearly low, according to research by investment bank Jefferies, driven by a heated global price war and a surge in adoption of low-cost Chinese open-source tools, such as those from DeepSeek.<br \/>\nAverage inference prices \u2013 measured per million tokens, or chunks of data handled by a model \u2013 ranged between US$1.16 and US$1.18 from August 6 to 8. That marked the lowest level recorded this year, Jefferies said on Monday, citing data from US&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-trends\/article\/3363549\/enterprise-ai-costs-hit-2026-low-driven-price-wars-chinese-open-source-models-research?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostThe cost for businesses to run AI models has fallen to a yearly low, according to research by investment bank Jefferies, driven by a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155874"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}