DeepSeek is offering discounts of up to 75% during off-peak hours to reduce spikes in demand for its application programming interface.

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek on Wednesday introduced discounted off-peak pricing for developers looking to use its AI models to build their own products, its website showed, a move that could put pressure on rivals in China and overseas to cut prices.

By Eduardo Baptista, Julie Zhu and Fanny Potkin BEIJING/HONG KONG/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - DeepSeek is looking to press home its advantage. The Chinese startup triggered a $1 trillion-plus sell-off in global equities markets last month with a cut-price AI reasoning model that outperformed many Western competitors.

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is fast-tracking the launch of its R2 model after the success of its earlier release, R1, which outperformed many Western

China’s DeepSeek shocked the world by delivering unexpected innovation at an unbelievable price in January. But this disruptive trend isn’t confined to Big Tech: It has been quietly happening in the pharmaceutical sector.

Alibaba, ByteDance, and Tencent are driving demand for NVIDIA H20 chips, fueling China’s AI boom despite U.S. export restrictions.

Demand for Nvidia's pricey artificial intelligence chips will be in focus when the company reports results on Wednesday as investors doubt the hefty spending on the technology after low-cost AI models from China's DeepSeek rattled the industry.