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DeepSeek's Price Hike and Google's Faster Startups — September 25, 2026
DeepSeek's revenue just hit a billion dollars, right after a price hike of up to four and a half times. A nine billion parameter model at Datadog now matches eighty seven percent of a giant model's accuracy for a twentieth of the cost. Same cost problem, opposite fixes. We go through how Google cut AI startup times by up to eighty nine percent, the first cyberattack carried out by an AI agent, a five hundred dollar ChatGPT tier with no spec sheet yet, and why plain cloud servers are suddenly hard to rent.
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