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Today in AI, Friday 30 October
What happened, and the one line on why it matters to a business.
The daily email carries 12 to 18 items. The AI Pulse hub carries the broader set, ranked, with source credibility, counterpoints and receipts on every item. Track a story over time on the timeline, or follow research from paper to product in the research tracker.
Captions tool targets repurposing
Overtone is presented as a tool for transcribing, correcting, and cutting captions for different screen shapes. Its Show HN post received 41 points and.
The play
Try a captioning tool on existing videos, and compare editing time and accuracy before adding it to your publishing workflow.
Pricing agent runs in production
Vadim Friedkin says Gurtam runs a custom revenue analytics AI agent in production to support pricing and discount decisions. The post reports about.
The play
Pilot automated pricing on one product segment, tracking margin gains alongside software and setup costs before expanding.
Proton cancels AI re-interviews
404 Media reports that Proton's CEO canceled AI re-interviews, drawing 186 points and 152 comments on Hacker News. The discussion is a timely reminder.
The play
Keep hiring and performance decisions under human review, and limit AI to support tasks where errors are easy to catch.
Transformer takes on DOOM
A project applies a Transformer to DOOM. It drew 121 points and 35 comments, showing how familiar game environments can make technical experiments.
The play
Test AI prototypes on familiar workflows first, then judge them by task completion rather than how impressive the demo looks.
The AI index
The models and tools worth knowing
An always-current, independent index of what AI builders actually use. Compare, then decide.
AI Models
Compare models on price, context, and capability.
Explore →MCP Servers
The connectors that plug tools into your agents.
Explore →AI Agents
Autonomous agents and frameworks that do real work.
Explore →Open Source
The open tools builders are shipping with.
Explore →AI Apps
AI-native apps worth knowing about.
Explore →Model leaderboard
The state of AI models: intelligence, price, and speed, side by side.
Compare models →State of AI models
Full leaderboard →| Model | Maker | Context | Price /Mtok | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grok 4.5 vision | xAI | 500K | $2 / $6 | Closed |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 vision | Anthropic | 1M | $3 / $15 | Closed |
| DeepSeek V3.2 | DeepSeek | 164K | $0.26 / $0.38 | Open |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 vision | Anthropic | 200K | $1 / $5 | Closed |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro vision · audio · video | 1M | $1.25 / $10 | Closed | |
| R1 | DeepSeek | 64K | $0.70 / $2.50 | Closed |
| DeepSeek V3 | DeepSeek | 164K | $0.26 / $1.03 | Closed |
| Claude Sonnet 4 vision | Anthropic | 200K | $3 / $15 | Closed |
| Llama 4 Maverick vision | Meta | 524K | $0.19 / $0.65 | Open |
| GPT-4o-mini vision | OpenAI | 128K | $0.15 / $0.60 | Closed |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite vision · audio · video | 1M | $0.10 / $0.40 | Closed | |
| Llama 4 Scout vision | Meta | 328K | $0.10 / $0.30 | Open |
Live from the Enterprise DNA model index. Prices in USD per million tokens, input / output.
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How people are actually making money with AI
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