Chinese AI company DeepSeek has unveiled a new model called 'V4.1 Flash' at an exceptionally low price of $0.15 per million tokens, which also significantly reduces memory usage.
The newly unveiled model reduces 'KV Cache' capacity, which temporarily stores AI computation results, to one-quarter of its previous level, and optimizes neural network structure to dramatically lower dependence on high-bandwidth memory and storage devices.
With the emergence of this ultra-low-cost model, dubbed a 'memory killer,' Micron and SK Hynix ADR stock prices plummeted on the New York stock exchange the previous day, followed by Samsung Electronics and Hynix stock prices falling together on the domestic market.
DeepSeek, which has positioned 'excellent value for money despite being extremely cheap' as its weapon rather than flashy performance, declared that starting from the 14th, it will discontinue existing pro models and automatically convert all inference tasks to this low-cost model.
As stock prices of Chinese AI companies fell precipitously one after another, experts diagnosed that the industry has entered a 'death zone' of intense price wars where it is difficult to survive without gaining a clear competitive advantage.
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Oh my...things keep coming out.
▶ Original source: https://news.nate.com/view/20260911n24149?mid=n0501
