ai-price-war

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Rows of Nvidia data center GPU servers, representing the AI infrastructure spending Kimi K3's release rattled

China just dropped an AI model so good it erased $590 billion off Nvidia in a day

Kimi K3 is free to download, runs about 70% cheaper than Claude per token, and it just proved open-weight AI doesn't mean second-rate anymore.

Lena Fischer · Aug 1 · 7 min

An abstract representation of an AI processor

OpenAI just cut its AI prices by 80% three weeks after launch — and China is the reason

GPT-5.6 Luna dropped from $1 to 20 cents per million tokens overnight. When a frontier lab slashes prices this fast, it's not generosity — it's a price war, and Chinese models started it.

Lena Fischer · Aug 1 · 9 min