Alibaba offers its top AI model for free, targeting Claude and ChatGPT performance
Alibaba has announced it is offering its top AI model for free, with performance targeting that comes close to Claude and ChatGPT. This move is part of an intensifying price war in the AI model market, with Chinese labs shipping frontier-level models at significantly lower prices.
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@alvinfoo
DeepSeek’s bar on that Bloomberg chart is so flat it looks like a rounding error. Chinese labs are shipping frontier-level models at prices that make GPT-5.6 and Claude look like luxury goods. This isn’t just competition, it’s a full-on price war that’s turning the API market