DeepSeek just made its 75% price cut permanent.
Western AI companies spent years teaching users that intelligence must be expensive, metered, limited, and wrapped in subscription anxiety.
China looked at that and said: No. Make it cheaper. Make it faster. Make it available. Make intelligence infrastructure.
This is why they panic.
Not because China is “dumping.” Not because China is “subsidizing.” But because China keeps turning monopolies into commodities.
First solar panels. Then EVs. Then drones. Then GPUs. Now AI tokens.
The West wanted AI to be a gated cathedral. China is turning it into electricity.
And when intelligence becomes cheap, the priesthood loses power.
Next Western headline:
“China’s AI overcapacity threatens the global model-pricing order.”
Honestly it helps a lot that deepseek is open source ngl.