DeepSeek AI 75% Price Cut - China Destroying USA Tech

Eli the Computer Guy5/25/20261,308 viewsDeep Sift
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Eli the Computer Guy discusses the plummeting costs of AI tokens, exemplified by China's DeepSeek AI making a permanent 75% price cut on its flagship V4 Pro model. He highlights that DeepSeek's new pricing can be as low as a third of a penny for a million tokens, and even OpenAI's input tokens are around 40 cents per million tokens, which is enough to process the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy. Eli questions the trillion-dollar valuations of major AI companies, arguing that the math doesn't add up when the cost of their core resource (tokens) is so low and continuously decreasing. He explains that the American AI business model relies on 'agentics,' where AI agents constantly burn tokens in the background to generate revenue. However, Eli believes many of these agents are fundamentally inefficient, and once users optimize their usage, the token consumption will not be high enough to justify such massive valuations. He points out that companies are supposed to be at their lowest valuation when they IPO, implying that current valuations are unsustainable given the market dynamics. The video suggests a 'race to the bottom' in token pricing, making it difficult for AI companies to achieve the revenue metrics required for their current market capitalizations.

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