MetaX Weekly AI Trend Report Week 33 2025 -- AI Price War Triggered by GPT-5, Full-Scale War by Giants Toward Technology Hegemony Begins, Competition Landscape Rapidly Changing from Performance Competition to Security and Ecosystem Expansion: OpenAI simultaneously launched multiple new models including GPT-5, GPT-5-Thinking, and GPT-5-Pro bringing new changes to the AI market. GPT-5 in particular was released at the aggressive price of 1.25 dollars per million input tokens and 10 dollars per output token -- far cheaper than Anthropic Claude Opus 4.1 and similar to Google Gemini 2.5 Pro. This GPT-5 focused on speed, usability, and reliability for general users rather than power users, significantly reducing errors and hallucinations. It features the ability for the model to automatically understand the necessary task without users needing to directly select a model. The AI price war implications: GPT-5 aggressive pricing reflects OpenAI confidence that inference efficiency improvements will continue to lower costs; the pricing is also strategic -- matching or undercutting Anthropic and Google pricing prevents competitors from using cost as a differentiator; for enterprise buyers this price competition means AI capabilities are becoming more accessible; the risk is margin compression across all AI API providers as pricing becomes competitive rather than premium.