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Enterprise AI costs hit 2026 low driven by price wars, Chinese open-source models: research

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. That marked the lowest level recorded this year, Jefferies said on Monday, citing data from US...

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Published: 10 August 2026
Source: SCMP Tech (HK/CN)
Category: News
Topics: Finance, VC & PE
Retrieved: 11 August 2026

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ethics.ai (10 August 2026), “Enterprise AI costs hit 2026 low driven by price wars, Chinese open-source models: research,” evidence record 18236, https://ethics.ai/record/18236 (originally published by SCMP Tech (HK/CN)).

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