DeepSeek dropped 60% again. Claude's benchmark just collapsed. Here's how I survive the AI price war chaos.

This week in AI has been wild. DeepSeek cut prices by another 60%. Their R1-V2 is now $0.15 per million input tokens. That's the third time this year. Meanwhile, Anthropic's Claude 4 Opus suddenly dropped 30 points on the GPQA Diamond benchmark (75% → 45%). Hacker News is full of people asking whether the model is still safe to use. Nobody really knows. And OpenAI quietly slipped out gpt-4o-mini-preview - sans the vision mode they promised last year. If you're building on AI APIs right now, you're living through this mess. Every week a model changes price, quality, or just vanishes.