Leading US AI labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic are releasing cheaper models as they fight to retain cost-conscious customers who are switching to cut-price alternatives from Chinese rivals.
面对转投中国竞争对手廉价替代方案、对成本高度敏感的客户，OpenAI和Anthropic等美国顶尖人工智能实验室正在发布更便宜的模型，以力争留住客户。
The price war comes as rising AI bills push companies to curb usage and seek cheaper models, helping Chinese developers including Moonshot and DeepSeek make inroads with users from Silicon Valley to Europe.
此轮价格战爆发之际，飙升的AI账单正迫使企业限制使用量并寻找更经济的模型。这为月之暗面(Moonshot)和深度求索(DeepSeek)等中国开发商提供了契机，助力其吸引从硅谷到欧洲的用户。
OpenAI recently said that it was slashing prices for GPT-5.6 Luna, its “fastest and most affordable model”, by 80 per cent. Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 5, touting the system’s “frontier intelligence . . . at half the price” of Fable 5, the company’s most capable model.
OpenAI近期表示，已将其“速度最快、价格最实惠的模型”—— GPT-5.6 Luna降价80%。Anthropic推出了Claude Opus 5，并宣称该系统在拥有“前沿智能”的同时，价格仅为其最强模型Fable 5的一半。