Developing story
China AI price war
The story so far — 4 entries, AUG 4, 2026 to AUG 15, 2026.
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AUG 4, 2026 · No. 76 · Lead story
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max and DeepSeek's V4-Flash open a new front in China's price warMarkTechPost
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AUG 7, 2026 · No. 79
Qwen3.8-Max ties Claude Opus 5 on the Artificial Analysis Agentic IndexAlibaba's open model now scores within a point of the best closed model on agentic tasks, the closest a Chinese lab has come to the top of that board.
The Decoder
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AUG 10, 2026 · No. 83
Alibaba plans to charge big users of its next open-weight Qwen modelQwen3.8-Max's open release will reportedly come with revenue-sharing terms for large commercial users, following Moonshot's playbook for Kimi K3.
Yahoo Finance / Reuters
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AUG 15, 2026 · No. 88 · Lead story
DeepSeek raises some V4 API prices by more than 10x as demand strains capacityInfoWorld