{
  "id": 18236,
  "url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3363549/enterprise-ai-costs-hit-2026-low-driven-price-wars-chinese-open-source-models-research",
  "title": "Enterprise AI costs hit 2026 low driven by price wars, Chinese open-source models: research",
  "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. That marked the lowest level recorded this year, Jefferies said on Monday, citing data from US...",
  "authors": "Xinmei Shen",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "finance-investment",
  "orgs": "deepseek",
  "regions": "china",
  "published_at": "2026-08-10T13:30:06.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-11T05:10:37.351Z",
  "source_slug": "x-scmp-tech-hk-cn",
  "source_name": "SCMP Tech (HK/CN)",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.scmp.com/tech",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18236",
  "original_url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3363549/enterprise-ai-costs-hit-2026-low-driven-price-wars-chinese-open-source-models-research",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}