AI's Cold War just got a price war
Turns out even trillion-dollar AI labs feel the squeeze. OpenAI just cut prices on its GPT-5.6 Luna model by 80 percent, while Anthropic launched a cheaper Claude Opus 5 and scrapped a planned price hike, all to stop customers fleeing to cheaper Chinese models from DeepSeek and Moonshot. Companies like DoorDash and Airbnb have already started switching to save on ballooning AI bills. With OpenAI and Anthropic both eyeing IPOs, investors want proof this spending spree actually makes money, not just burns it.
Nothing humbles a trillion-dollar valuation like a customer checking out DeepSeek's pricing page.