{
  "id": 477010,
  "title": "Enterprise AI costs hit 2026 low driven by price wars, Chinese open-source models: research",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/10/enterprise-ai-costs-hit-2026-low-driven-by-price-wars-chinese-open-477010",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-10T13:30:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "SCMP Tech",
    "slug": "scmp-tech",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3363549/enterprise-ai-costs-hit-2026-low-driven-price-wars-chinese-open-source-models-research"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The 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. Average inference prices – measured per million tokens, or chunks of data handled by a model – ranged between US$1.16 and US$1.18 from August 6 to 8.…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "South China Morning Post",
        "title": "Enterprise AI costs hit 2026 low driven by price wars, Chinese open-source models: research",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/10/enterprise-ai-costs-hit-2026-low-driven-by-price-wars-chinese-open",
        "published": "2026-08-10T13:30:06.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}