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China's AI Price War: How Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max and DeepSeek V4-Flash Are Reshaping Inference Costs

Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max and DeepSeek's V4-Flash show China's AI labs competing on inference cost, not just model size — with a full pricing, benchmark, and cost-per-task breakdown.