OpenAI blinks in face-off with Chinese rivals, drops pricing for some models up to 80%
- Source
- South China Morning Post - Business
- Source link
- https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3362568/openai-blinks-face-chinese-rivals-drops-pricing-some-models-80?utm_source=rss_feed
- Published
- 2026-07-31 11:00:25
- Discovered by ProcIntel
- 2026-07-31 11:07:43
- Category
- Procurement & Supply Chain News
- Geography
- China
- Organisations
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- Review status
- Pending
- Record type
- REAL
Summary
In a bid to defend its market share against rapidly advancing, lower-cost Chinese rivals, US artificial intelligence firm OpenAI has launched an aggressive price war, slashing prices for its latest GPT-5.6 model line-up by up to 80 per cent. In a post on social media platform X on Thursday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced an 80 per cent drop in developer pricing for its lightweight GPT-5.6 Luna model, bringing application programming interface (API) costs down to US$0.20 per million input tokens...
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