ENTERPRISE AI COSTS HIT 2026 LOW DRIVEN BY PRICE WARS, CHINESE OPEN-SOURCE MODELS: RESEARCH

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… 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.

News - South China Morning Post reports that 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…

The report adds: 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...

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