Alibaba is testing paid features in Qwen as Doubao’s office strategy raises questions about whether AI apps can turn usage into revenue in China’s AI market.

Reports from The Straits Times and The Business Times link Chinese AI demand to rising Hong Kong data centre prices, raising costs for AI builders.

Reuters reports Alibaba plans to charge large commercial users of its next open Qwen model, testing how open AI can support cloud revenue.

DeepSeek has signaled a significant price increase, raising questions about its low-cost appeal and the economics facing developers using its AI models.

Alibaba has introduced its largest AI model while DeepSeek highlights ultra-low costs, intensifying pressure on providers to deliver more for less.

Reports identify DeepSeek V4-Flash as the cheapest major AI model to run, a claim that could reshape cost calculations for AI builders.

OpenAI says GPT-5.6 improves intelligence-per-dollar across models, inference, and agents, signaling cost efficiency is now central to frontier AI.

Block’s Goose is gaining attention as a free, local alternative to Claude Code, highlighting cost, privacy and control trade-offs in AI coding tools.

Chinese AI models are drawing US interest with lower costs and open release strategies, raising new questions for enterprise buyers and builders.

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 tops third-party AI rankings at a lower reported task cost than Fable 5, sharpening price-performance pressure in frontier models.

Anthropic has introduced Claude Opus 5, pitching stronger coding performance, lower costs and new API features for agents and enterprise AI use.

Block’s free, open-source Goose is gaining attention as developers push back on Claude Code pricing, usage caps, and cloud dependence.

Anthropic has started showing Claude prices in Indian rupees, reducing subscription friction in its second-largest market as AI rivals deepen India bets.

Coverage comparing Claude Sonnet 5, Sonnet 4.6, and Opus 4.8 highlights how API pricing and coding benchmarks are shaping model choices.

Meta introduced Muse Spark 1.1 and a public preview of the Meta Model API, pairing a 1 million-token context window with pricing that undercuts U.S. rivals.

Block’s open-source Goose offers a free, local alternative to Claude Code, sharpening debate over AI coding agent pricing, privacy, and usage limits.

DeepSeek is reportedly doubling peak-hour API pricing for DeepSeek-V4 in July, a move that could push developers to rethink traffic timing and model mix.

GLM-5.2 is being positioned as a cheaper rival to OpenAI and Anthropic, highlighting intensifying price pressure in enterprise AI models.

Coverage of Zhipu’s GLM-5.2 points to rising interest in lower-cost Chinese AI models, underscoring new pricing and deployment pressure in enterprise AI.

A report claims a new Chinese AI model undercuts OpenAI and Anthropic on price, but limited source detail leaves performance and deployment claims unconfirmed.