They're just phasing out an old model. Pricing on current models hasn't changed.

> The ones who have seen obvious degradation in work quality and stability, but who have tried to ignore or hide it. They now have to face down CFO’s and executive management who see zero returns on the current spend and are being asked to approve extreme budget increases.

Hm, there must be businesses like this, but I presume there are many who experience huge returns on current spend - and even 5x costs would be fine, but currently AI prices (given fixed 'intelligence') are dropping like a stone. I can't imagine that the same level of intelligence is going to be more expensive in 12 months.

It's just normal that there's a huge variation of how businesses and individuals adapt to new circumstances, this has been the case forever.

For some firms not having to deal with employees is less do with cost and more to do with control and a freedom from all the extra overhead that dealing with humans and their complex "needs" brings. Health care, working conditions, the scourge of a human resources department, complaints and liabilities of every sort imaginable. I personally would pay double or triple the wage of a human worker to not have all that worry, especially in high regulatory juristictions. If the output is faster and even half as good as well, there is no question at all.

Most humans demand too much and bring little to the table. Real talent is very rare and it mostly wants to work for itself if it can.

The issue is our entire economy is being held up by AI hype.

If there's a grand realization that AI isn't magic, let's just say I'm not optimistic.

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It's an outdated model that they're increasing the price of so you switch to the newer one essentially, this whole post is clickbait since it doesn't mention that

DeepSeek is different company than Alibaba. I'm not sure why prices of one of the secondary (for DeepSeek models) API providers is newsworthy, but I guess people might not realize it is a different company.

Yep, 1017 is available at the normal $0.15/$0.06 pricing: https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/model-pric...

This is no different from AWS charging higher prices for hosting Kubernetes/MySQL/etc. versions that are end-of-life. Keep your stuff maintained and upgrade, to free up the resources.

From your link:

"Open-source technology and research already in the public domain would not be covered, and the government will provide streamlined procedures, such as automatic licensing, to exports involving open-source AI technologies."

China is making companies tell them ahead of time before they release large, capable models. It's not a ban yet.

Afaik Luna is a bit cheaper.