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Why AI prices are in a race to the bottom 2/26/25

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Disruptors, Investing, Faang, Technology, Business, Management, Cnbc, Tech

4.856 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

DeepSeek’s impact being felt as more free AI offerings make their way to consumers, in a battle for users between the biggest AI names. We look at what the trend means as more names enter the crowded chatbot field.

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0:00.0

Much of AI has been on sale or made free in recent weeks, one of the effects of that Deepseek

0:04.7

breakthrough. Adir Dobosa has more today on what this might mean for Invidia tonight. Morning

0:09.8

Deep. Everything comes back to Invidia, right? Well, really, what we're seeing is a race to the bottom

0:15.1

in AI pricing. As mega caps and startups alike, they jostle to establish dominance in this critical

0:20.5

period.

0:21.3

Now, for NVIDIA, it will be a test of Jevin's paradox.

0:24.4

The idea that overall demand for AI compute will increase rather than decline as compute

0:30.0

becomes cheaper and more efficient.

0:31.6

Now, it's also having an impact on new products coming to market, like Amazon's revamped

0:35.3

Alexa.

0:36.0

Moments ago, the company said that it will be free for prime members.

0:39.3

RK. Rooney reported that in the early stages of planning,

0:42.3

Amazon was considering charging even prime members for it.

0:46.3

Now, let's take a look at the landscape.

0:48.3

This is just some of what is now on offer by the biggest players in this space

0:53.3

and all announced over the last few weeks or so.

0:56.0

Shortly after DeepSeek released its open source reasoning model, OpenAI made a free version

1:00.6

of its most advanced O3 Mini available. From there, products and features, entire models even

1:07.0

from the likes of Google, Microsoft, and XAI made available to users at no cost to them.

1:13.5

So essentially, a land grab amid this rapidly commoditizing landscape because as developers,

1:19.3

consumers, enterprises, they start incorporating AI in earnest.

1:22.8

These companies want to make sure that each of their platforms become the platform of choice.

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