AI Price War Intensifies as Release Overload Challenges Enterprise Evaluation

DeepSeek's V4.1 Flash claims better performance than V4 Pro at very low API prices, while Qwen, Anthropic, GLM, Grok, IBM, Google, Meta, and Mistral compete on cost, coding, openness, multimodality, and sovereign deployment. Independent benchmarks, security provenance, and sustainable deployment economics remain limited, while local testing highlights memory, bandwidth, latency, and runtime constraints.