The AI Price War Nobody Saw Coming (Except DeepSeek)
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The AI Price War Nobody Saw Coming (Except DeepSeek)

Q1 2026 just ended and the AI industry is having its "oh shit" moment. DeepSeek trained a GPT-5-class model for under $6M while Big Tech extended GPU depreciation schedules to hide a $505B CapEx time bomb. Turns out infinite money wasn't actually infinite.

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