Pakistan, Aug. 3 -- Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek has introduced its new V4-Flash model, which a research firm says is the cheapest leading AI model to operate in global benchmark tests. According to the analysis, the model costs significantly less than competing systems while maintaining competitive performance across several tasks. The launch marks DeepSeek's latest effort to strengthen its position in the rapidly growing AI industry and expand its global presence.

Research firm Artificial Analysis reported that DeepSeek's V4-Flash charges just $0.14 per million input tokens and $0.28 per million output tokens. Based on benchmark testing, the firm estimated the model costs around three cents per task, compared with 8...