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The AI price split: why the middle market is disappearing

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Source: The New Stack
The AI price split: why the middle market is disappearing
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OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 pricing (about $5 input, $30 output per million tokens) and DeepSeek’s open-weight V4-Pro/Fl­ash offerings have created a two-cluster AI market, widening the cost gap between a closed, vendor-managed product and cheaper, open infrastructure. The once-smooth price-performance curve now shows a thinning middle, forcing developers to route workloads across the high-end integrated stack and the lower-cost open-weight stack, and reshaping how AI agents and coding assistants are built and deployed.

Topics:businesstechnology#ai-pricing#coding-agents#deepseek#open-weight#openai#technology
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  1. The disappearing AI middle class  The New Stack
  2. Introducing GPT-5.5  OpenAI
  3. OpenAI’s New GPT-5.5 Powers Codex on NVIDIA Infrastructure — and NVIDIA Is Already Putting It to Work  NVIDIA Blog
  4. “Mythos-like hacking, open to all”: Industry reacts to OpenAI’s GPT 5.5  The New Stack
  5. GPT-5.5 is generally available for GitHub Copilot  The GitHub Blog

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