DeepSeek Matched Gemini 3.6 Flash at 3 Cents Per Benchmark Test. Alibaba (BABA) Is Turning Alphabet’s (GOOGL) China Problem Into a Price War
Reported by Yahoo Finance · finance.yahoo.com · August 4, 2026
DeepSeek gave Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE:BABA) and Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) a revealing price comparison on August 3. Artificial Analysis estimated that DeepSeek’s V4-Flash averaged just $0.03 to complete each test in its benchmark suite while scoring 50 on its Intelligence Index, matching Google’s Gemini 3.6 Flash. Three cents is the average cost of completing […]
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