{ "schemaVersion": 1, "publisher": "Loaded Tokens", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/search/", "method": "Static index of public briefs, issues, lessons, tools and companies. Draft issues and paid guide bodies are excluded. Filter locally; this file is not a search service.", "documents": [ { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "Anthropic rolls out Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, The Verge reports", "text": "The Verge reports that Anthropic has released two models, Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2, and is positioning them for hard technical work. Anthropic says both improve on the 5.1 versions in coding, reasoning, and vision, and also produce output faster. These are the company's own claims. The report does not include any independent testing. The Verge: AI", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/anthropic-rolls-out-claude-fable-5-2-and-mythos-719be9/", "date": "2026-11-09", "topic": "Models", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "Apple adds a $49.99 option to buy more Apple Intelligence usage in Logic Pro", "text": "The Verge reports that Logic Pro now has a \"Buy More Usage\" option, a one-time $49.99 purchase. It extends access to Apple Intelligence features that carry usage limits. Apple first described those limits in a support article in early September. According to the report, 9to5Mac spotted the change, and Logic Pro includes a built-in AI assistant that can help with tasks such as starting a new song. The Verge: AI", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/apple-adds-a-49-99-option-to-buy-more-apple-inte-a311ac/", "date": "2026-11-09", "topic": "AI for work", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base adds single-shot and retrieval-only modes alongside agentic retrieval", "text": "AWS says Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base now handles single-shot RAG and retrieval-only requests through AgenticRetrieveStream, and agentic retrieval is still available. AWS says a parameter called maxAgentIteration controls how much retrieval effort each request gets. Its walkthrough uses a made-up internal banking policy assistant as the example. Amazon Web Services", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/bedrock-managed-knowledge-base-adds-single-shot-b09ddd/", "date": "2026-11-09", "topic": "Build & deploy", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "Bloomberg: Anthropic releases new Mythos and Fable models as its IPO approaches", "text": "Bloomberg reports that Anthropic has released updated versions of its Mythos and Fable AI models. According to the outlet, the launch is meant to strengthen Anthropic's standing as a leading AI developer just before the company goes public. The excerpt doesn't describe what's new in the models, how they perform, or when they'll be available. Bloomberg Technology", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/bloomberg-anthropic-releases-new-mythos-and-fabl-6203cf/", "date": "2026-11-09", "topic": "Models", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "Bloomberg: Lawmakers seek answers on Nvidia after report on Jensen Huang and alleged Chinese spy", "text": "Bloomberg reports that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had an affair with a person alleged to be a Chinese spy. According to the outlet, members of both parties in Congress are now pressing for more information. They want to gauge what the matter could mean for national security. The excerpt describes allegations and early demands, not findings or any action taken. Bloomberg Technology", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/bloomberg-lawmakers-seek-answers-on-nvidia-after-c35d26/", "date": "2026-11-09", "topic": "Agent infrastructure", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "Bloomberg: Nvidia's top lawyer stepped into US chip-smuggling probe of Megaspeed", "text": "Bloomberg reports that Nvidia's general counsel got involved in a US government investigation into suspected AI chip smuggling by Singapore-based Megaspeed International. The lawyer reportedly asked whether the Trump administration had a hand in detaining a Megaspeed executive. Bloomberg says that executive is now central to a scandal that threatens Jensen Huang. Bloomberg Technology", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/bloomberg-nvidia-s-top-lawyer-stepped-into-us-ch-63c359/", "date": "2026-11-09", "topic": "Agent infrastructure", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "Claude Code v2.1.321 makes Claude Fable 5.2 the default Fable model and fixes an MCP OAuth token leak", "text": "Anthropic's Claude Code release notes say Claude Fable 5.2 is now the default Fable model, with a 1M-token context window. It is priced at $8 input and $40 output per million tokens, and cache reads cost $0.20. The update also fixes a bug where MCP OAuth could pass refresh tokens to a different host after a server redirect. Claude Code releases", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/claude-code-v2-1-321-makes-claude-fable-5-2-the-ace31f/", "date": "2026-11-09", "topic": "Coding agents", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "Digital Realty brings its liquid cooling lab program to São Paulo", "text": "Data Center Dynamics reports that Digital Realty has opened a liquid cooling lab in São Paulo, Brazil. According to the outlet, it is the company's first DRIL lab in Latin America. It comes after a London lab that opened earlier this year. Data Center Dynamics", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/digital-realty-brings-its-liquid-cooling-lab-pro-b5f73c/", "date": "2026-11-09", "topic": "Infrastructure", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "Ericsson's new CEO says AI devices will drive demand for next-gen networks", "text": "Bloomberg reports that Ericsson's new chief executive expects artificial intelligence to boost demand for next-generation telecom networks. According to the report, the reasoning is that AI-connected gadgets such as smart glasses will need more data. For now this is an executive's outlook and does not include figures or a timeline. Bloomberg Technology", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/ericsson-s-new-ceo-says-ai-devices-will-drive-de-87b165/", "date": "2026-11-09", "topic": "Agent infrastructure", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "Fireworks AI tells customers of a second breach within weeks, Bloomberg reports", "text": "Bloomberg reports that Fireworks AI, an Nvidia-backed startup that runs AI models for other companies, told customers on Monday that attackers had accessed their data. According to Bloomberg, this is the company's second known hack in a few weeks. The excerpt doesn't say what data was exposed or how many customers were affected. Bloomberg Technology", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/fireworks-ai-tells-customers-of-a-second-breach-0ac84c/", "date": "2026-11-09", "topic": "Build & deploy", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "Google pushes new AI chips as it tries to take on Nvidia", "text": "Bloomberg reports that Google is releasing a new set of AI chips to build on its rise as a competitor to Nvidia. The excerpt is a short video segment featuring Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Mandeep Singh. It gives no chip names, specs, pricing or availability, so the business details still need confirming. Bloomberg Technology", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/google-pushes-new-ai-chips-as-it-tries-to-take-o-387e80/", "date": "2026-11-09", "topic": "Agent infrastructure", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "Guardian: Nvidia board faces hard choice over Jensen Huang's future", "text": "The Guardian reports that Nvidia's board must make a difficult decision about Jensen Huang after the co-founder had an affair with an alleged Chinese spy. Huang has led the chipmaker since he co-founded it in 1993, and the outlet notes his children hold leadership roles there. The piece asks whether he could be pushed out. The excerpt does not report a board decision. The Guardian", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/guardian-nvidia-board-faces-hard-choice-over-jen-1dd2cf/", "date": "2026-11-09", "topic": "Agent infrastructure", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "LangChain says agent context engineering starts with better retrieval", "text": "LangChain has a new post arguing that agents burn time and context on clumsy searches, oversized results and outdated data. The company describes the retrieval techniques its Deep Agents harness uses to give agents the right context. Builders working on agent memory may find it a useful practical reference. LangChain", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/langchain-says-agent-context-engineering-starts-2b4301/", "date": "2026-11-09", "topic": "Agents", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "Nvidia shares drop after board probes Jensen Huang's ties to suspected Chinese spy", "text": "TechCrunch reports that Nvidia's stock fell more than 4% after its board began investigating Jensen Huang's relationship with a person suspected of spying for China. A securities law expert quoted by the outlet warned that Nvidia's earlier claim that the matter was \"normal\" could prove costly if shareholders sue. TechCrunch AI", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/nvidia-shares-drop-after-board-probes-jensen-hua-bda301/", "date": "2026-11-09", "topic": "Agent infrastructure", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Super VL arrives on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart", "text": "AWS says NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a 120B-parameter vision-language model, can now be deployed from SageMaker JumpStart. Teams can choose an NVFP4 or BF16 variant and run inference on text, images, and video. AWS is positioning it for document understanding, computer-use agents, and other multimodal agent work. Amazon Web Services", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/nvidia-s-nemotron-3-5-super-vl-arrives-on-amazon-1cff12/", "date": "2026-11-09", "topic": "Build & deploy", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "OpenAI marks ChatGPT conversation error incident as resolved", "text": "OpenAI's status page lists an incident with elevated errors in ChatGPT conversations, now marked resolved. The company says every affected service is back to normal and the Conversations component shows as operational. The post does not give a cause, duration, or how many users were hit. OpenAI status history", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/openai-marks-chatgpt-conversation-error-incident-f5ba1e/", "date": "2026-11-09", "topic": "Agent infrastructure", "verdict": "ignore" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "Reindeer brings its Gemini-based enterprise agents to Google Cloud Marketplace", "text": "In a press release, Reindeer says its enterprise AI agents can now be bought by Google Cloud customers through the Google Cloud Marketplace. The company describes the agents as built on Gemini models and deployed on Google Cloud, and it calls the move a wider partnership aimed at core business operations. This is a vendor announcement, and the excerpt gives no customer results or pricing. PR Newswire", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/reindeer-brings-its-gemini-based-enterprise-agen-63d354/", "date": "2026-11-09", "topic": "Agents", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "Semafor: Congress turns its attention to Nvidia's CEO after a spy scandal", "text": "Semafor reports that lawmakers are looking at Nvidia's chief executive after a spy scandal. According to the outlet, they are considering tighter export controls that would restrict the company's chip sales to Beijing, along with possible investigations. The excerpt does not describe the scandal itself. Semafor Technology", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/semafor-congress-turns-its-attention-to-nvidia-s-f28431/", "date": "2026-11-09", "topic": "Agent infrastructure", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "Two Chinese chip suppliers set for Hong Kong trading debut", "text": "Bloomberg reports that Suzhou Denglin Technology and Jiangsu Xinde Semiconductor Technology were due to start trading in Hong Kong on Tuesday, after their IPOs raised a combined $301 million. According to Bloomberg, the listings arrive while tech stocks are swinging sharply, so the debuts will test how much investors want chip shares. Bloomberg Technology", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/two-chinese-chip-suppliers-set-for-hong-kong-tra-6d0609/", "date": "2026-11-09", "topic": "Agent infrastructure", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "US stocks recover from AI sell-off even as Nvidia slips, FT reports", "text": "The Financial Times reports that US stock indices bounced back after a sell-off tied to AI. Lower oil prices helped the broader market look past a decline in Nvidia shares. The excerpt does not give figures or explain what started the AI rout. That makes this a read on investor mood, not news about the technology. Financial Times Technology", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/us-stocks-recover-from-ai-sell-off-even-as-nvidi-bab4f9/", "date": "2026-11-09", "topic": "Agent infrastructure", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "learn", "kind": "Explainer", "title": "AI is a prediction engine, not a tiny coworker", "text": "Understand the difference between producing plausible language and knowing that a claim is true. Separate a model from the app around it Identify a claim that needs verification", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/learn/what-a-language-model-does/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "AI basics, Models", "verdict": null }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "Alibaba Cloud", "text": "Publisher of the Qwen open-weight model family. License and any API price are per checkpoint, not one family-wide bill.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/alibaba/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Models", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Amazon Bedrock", "text": "AWS AWS access to foundation models and supporting services such as knowledge bases and guardrails. Usage depends on provider, model, modality and service tier. Knowledge bases and other services can add separate charges.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/amazon-bedrock/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Agent infrastructure", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Amazon Q Developer", "text": "AWS A development assistant available in IDE and CLI workflows. Free tier with limits; Pro $19/user/month, with higher allowances and administrative features.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/amazon-q-developer/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Coding agents", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "learn", "kind": "Explainer", "title": "An agent is a loop. Your business still needs a brake.", "text": "Know when a fixed workflow beats a model choosing its own next action. Compare a workflow with an agent loop Place a human approval boundary", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/learn/agents-versus-workflows/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Agents, Coding agents", "verdict": null }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "Anthropic", "text": "The company behind Claude and Claude Code. Claude Free is $0; Pro is $20/month when billed monthly. Max starts at $100/month. Usage and model restrictions apply.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/anthropic/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Models", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "AssemblyAI", "text": "AssemblyAI Speech-to-text with a published hourly rate, plus text to speech. $50 in free credits. Universal-3.5 Pro pre-recorded is $0.21 an hour. Streaming bills the open socket, not just the audio. Text to speech is $15 per million characters.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/assemblyai/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Voice & audio", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "AssemblyAI", "text": "Speech-to-text and a newer text-to-speech API. $50 in free credits. Universal-3.5 Pro pre-recorded is $0.21 an hour. Text to speech is $15 per million characters.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/assemblyai/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Voice & audio", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "AWS", "text": "Amazon Bedrock model services and Amazon Q Developer coding assistance. Bedrock varies by model, modality and tier. Q Developer offers Free and Pro at $19/user/month.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/aws/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Agent infrastructure", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "Black Forest Labs", "text": "Maker of the FLUX image models. schnell weights are free under Apache 2.0. Other checkpoints and any hosted API are priced separately.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/black-forest-labs/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Video", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Cartesia", "text": "Cartesia Speech models and voice agents sold as credits. Free is 20,000 credits a month. A $49 plan includes 1.25 million credits. Voice-agent minutes are a separate prepaid balance.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/cartesia/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Voice & audio", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "Cartesia", "text": "Speech models and voice agents, sold as monthly credits. Free is $0 with 20,000 credits a month. A $49 plan includes 1.25 million credits. Scale is $299.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/cartesia/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Voice & audio", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "ChatGPT", "text": "OpenAI A conversational assistant with file, research and writing features that depend on plan. Free version; paid plans are priced per user/month. The public page did not expose stable numeric paid amounts in our text capture.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/chatgpt/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "AI for work", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "learn", "kind": "Explainer", "title": "Choose a model like a vehicle, not a sports team", "text": "A practical scorecard for comparing capability, latency, data rules and cost. Build a task-specific model scorecard Spot mismatched benchmark comparisons", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/learn/choose-a-model-by-the-job/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Models, AI basics", "verdict": null }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Claude", "text": "Anthropic A conversational assistant available on web, desktop and mobile with plan-dependent tools. Free $0; Pro $20/month billed monthly, or $200 billed up front annually. Limits apply.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/claude/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "AI for work", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Claude Code", "text": "Anthropic An agentic coding tool for repository and terminal workflows, described in its official overview. Included with eligible Claude plans, including Pro; plan limits apply. API-backed usage follows separate billing.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/claude-code/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Coding agents", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "Cloudflare", "text": "Workers AI inference and AI Gateway for managing model traffic. Workers AI includes 10,000 neurons/day; paid usage above this is $0.011/1,000 neurons. Gateway core features are free, with separate paid services.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/cloudflare/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Agent infrastructure", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Cloudflare AI Gateway", "text": "Cloudflare Gateway controls including analytics, caching and rate limiting. Core features free. New-gateway logs follow Workers Logs billing; Unified Billing credit purchases have a 5% fee. Provider inference costs remain.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/cloudflare-ai-gateway/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Agent infrastructure", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Cloudflare Workers AI", "text": "Cloudflare Managed model inference integrated with the Workers platform. 10,000 neurons/day free allocation; paid usage above that is $0.011/1,000 neurons on Workers Paid. Model units vary.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/workers-ai/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Agent infrastructure", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "Cognition", "text": "Maker of Devin, the desktop and cloud coding agent sold on windsurf.com. Free is $0. Pro is $20 a month. Max is $200. Teams is $80 a month plus $40 a month per full seat.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/cognition/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Coding agents", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "Comfy Org", "text": "Makers of ComfyUI, a node-based local image and video workflow tool. The app is free. The license is GPL-3.0, which is a condition, not a suggestion.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/comfy-org/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Open source & local AI", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "ComfyUI", "text": "Comfy Org A node graph for local image and video models. Free under GPL-3.0. Nodes and models you add can carry other licenses.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/comfyui/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Open source & local AI", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "crewAI", "text": "A framework for role-shaped agents written in Python. The library is free under MIT. Model calls are billed by whoever hosts them.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/crewai/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Open source & local AI", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "CrewAI", "text": "crewAI A Python framework for role-shaped agents. The library is MIT. Model calls are billed by the provider you choose.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/crewai/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Open source & local AI", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "Cursor", "text": "An AI coding environment and command-line agent. Free $0; Plus $8/month; Premium $30/month. Higher tiers exist. Third-party models require eligible plans and prepaid credit.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/cursor/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Coding agents", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Cursor CLI", "text": "Cursor A command-line agent with interactive and non-interactive workflows documented by Cursor. Uses Cursor plan and model rules: Free plus paid tiers; eligible third-party model usage draws prepaid credit.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/cursor-cli/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Coding agents", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Cursor editor", "text": "Cursor An AI coding environment with agent workflows and model selection. Free $0; Plus $8/month; Premium $30/month. Third-party models on eligible tiers use prepaid credit at API list price.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/cursor-editor/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Coding agents", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Deepgram", "text": "Deepgram Speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and voice agents. $200 free credit, then pay as you go. Nova-3 monolingual pre-recorded is $0.0043 a minute. Aura-2 is $0.030 per 1,000 characters.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/deepgram/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Voice & audio", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "Deepgram", "text": "Speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and voice agents, billed on use. Pay as you go starts with $200 in free credit. Nova-3 monolingual pre-recorded is $0.0043 a minute. Aura-2 speech is $0.030 per 1,000 characters.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/deepgram/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Voice & audio", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "DeepSeek", "text": "Open-weight language models and a hosted chat product. Weights are posted per model. Read that model's license before commercial use.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/deepseek/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Models", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "DeepSeek weights", "text": "DeepSeek Open-weight DeepSeek models. The license lives on the model card. Weights are posted per model. There is no single price that covers every DeepSeek checkpoint.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/deepseek-v4/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Models", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Devin", "text": "Cognition A coding agent with a desktop app and cloud sessions. Free is $0 with a light quota. Pro is $20 a month. Max is $200. Teams is $80 a month plus $40 per full seat. Extra use is API pricing.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/devin/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Coding agents", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "ElevenLabs", "text": "Speech generation and Scribe speech-to-text tools. Free $0/month with 10,000 credits; Starter $6/month after any first-month promotion. Credits are shared across products.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/elevenlabs/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Voice & audio", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "ElevenLabs Scribe", "text": "ElevenLabs Speech-to-text tools for recorded and real-time transcription, with timestamps and speaker features. Free and paid shared-credit plans. The speech-to-text page lists plan-specific minutes; Starter is $6/month before taxes after promotion.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/elevenlabs-scribe/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Voice & audio", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "ElevenLabs Text to Speech", "text": "ElevenLabs Speech generation with plan-dependent voice features, credit usage and licensing. Free $0/month with 10,000 shared credits; Starter $6/month after first-month promotions. Commercial license listed on Starter.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/elevenlabs-tts/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Voice & audio", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Exa", "text": "Exa A search API for agents, with contents and an answer endpoint. Free credit is $10, resetting monthly. Lite search is $4 per 1,000 requests. Answer is $5 per 1,000. The first 10 results are in the base price.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/exa/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Search & research", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "Exa", "text": "A search API for agents, priced per request. Free tier is $10 in credits on signup, resetting to $10 on the first of the month. Lite search is $4 per 1,000 requests. Answer is $5 per 1,000.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/exa/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Search & research", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Flowise", "text": "Flowise A visual builder for LLM flows you host yourself. Free under Apache 2.0. Any model you connect is billed separately.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/flowise/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Open source & local AI", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "Flowise", "text": "A visual builder for LLM flows you can host yourself. The software is free under Apache 2.0. Hosting and model fees are yours.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/flowise/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Open source & local AI", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "FLUX.1 schnell", "text": "Black Forest Labs The Apache-licensed FLUX.1 schnell image model. The schnell weights are free under Apache 2.0. Other FLUX checkpoints use other licenses.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/flux-schnell/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Video", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Gemini Developer API", "text": "Google A developer API with model-specific free and paid access. Free and paid tiers vary by model. Some models have no free tier; thinking and tool-related tokens may be billable.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/gemini-api/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Models", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Gemini Omni", "text": "Google Google's native video model in the Gemini API. Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash is generally available. Google's post prices 720p at $0.07 a second, 30 percent under Omni 1.1, for clips up to 15 seconds.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/gemini-omni/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Video", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "GitHub", "text": "Copilot coding assistance in editors, the cloud and the terminal. Copilot Free $0; Pro $10/user/month; Pro+ $39/user/month. Credits and model access vary by plan.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/github/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Coding agents", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "GitHub Copilot", "text": "GitHub Coding assistance with completions, agent features and model access that vary by plan. Free $0; Pro $10/user/month; Pro+ $39/user/month. Plan credits and model restrictions apply.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/github-copilot/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Coding agents", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "GitHub Copilot CLI", "text": "GitHub A terminal-based coding agent documented by GitHub. Copilot CLI is listed in Copilot Free; paid plans expand allowances and model access. Credits vary by model.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/github-copilot-cli/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Coding agents", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "Google", "text": "Gemini developer models and AI Studio for prototyping with them. Gemini Developer API has free and paid tiers; eligibility and rates vary by model. AI Studio access is listed in the free tier.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/google/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Models", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Google AI Studio", "text": "Google Google’s browser-based starting point for exploring Gemini and developing API-backed workflows. AI Studio access is listed in the Gemini API free tier; paid API usage and model eligibility are separate.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/google-ai-studio/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Build & deploy", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "GPT-Live", "text": "OpenAI OpenAI's live voice session, including outbound SIP. gpt-live-1 is $0.05 a minute, billed per second. Backend model and tool use are charged separately. Realtime audio tokens are a different table, at $32 in and $64 out per million for gpt-realtime-2.1 audio.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/gpt-live/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Voice & audio", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "HeyGen", "text": "HeyGen Avatar video and translation. Free is three watermarked videos a month. Creator is $29 a month. Pro starts at $49. Business is $149 plus $20 a seat.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/heygen/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Video", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "HeyGen", "text": "Avatar and translation video, with a credit system. Free is $0. Creator is $29 a month. Pro starts at $49. Business is $149 plus $20 a seat.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/heygen/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Video", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "Hugging Face", "text": "A model and dataset Hub with hosted inference provider access. PRO $9/month; Team $20/user/month. Hosted compute and storage have separate metered charges and limits.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/hugging-face/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Agent infrastructure", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Hugging Face Hub", "text": "Hugging Face A Hub for discovering and sharing models, datasets and Spaces. Account upgrades include PRO $9/month and Team $20/user/month. Storage and compute charges are separate.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/hugging-face-hub/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Models", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Hugging Face Inference Providers", "text": "Hugging Face Hosted access to inference providers with centralized pay-as-you-go billing. Pay-as-you-go provider rates with no Hugging Face markup. PRO includes $2/month compute credits; free users must buy credits or upgrade.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/hf-inference-providers/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Agent infrastructure", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Jan", "text": "Jan A desktop app that runs local models and exposes a local API. Free to download. The README states Apache 2.0. Confirm the LICENSE file you install.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/jan/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Open source & local AI", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "Jan", "text": "A desktop app for running local models, with an OpenAI-compatible local server. Free to download. Treat the repository license as the terms.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/jan/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Open source & local AI", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Kimi", "text": "Moonshot AI Moonshot's Kimi models, including open-weight checkpoints. Weights are free to download where the model card allows it. Hosted Kimi is a separate account.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/kimi/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Models", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "LangChain", "text": "LangGraph agent orchestration and LangSmith tracing and evaluation. LangSmith Developer $0/seat/month plus usage; Plus $39/seat/month plus usage. Self-managed frameworks have separate runtime costs.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/langchain/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Agents", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "LangGraph", "text": "LangChain An orchestration framework for stateful agent workflows, with explicit graph structure and execution control. Self-managed runtime and model costs apply. Managed deployment and LangSmith features have separate pricing.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/langgraph/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Agents", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "LangSmith", "text": "LangChain A platform for tracing, evaluation and agent-development workflows. Developer $0/seat/month plus usage, up to 5,000 base traces/month. Plus $39/seat/month plus usage.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/langsmith/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Agent infrastructure", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Llama", "text": "Meta Meta's Llama open-weight models. Weights are free under the Llama community license, which is not an OSI open-source license.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/llama/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Models", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "llama.cpp", "text": "llama.cpp A local inference engine for GGUF-style model files. The engine is free under the repository license. You supply the model.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/llama-cpp/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Open source & local AI", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "llama.cpp", "text": "A local inference engine for running language models on CPUs and GPUs. The engine is free under the repository license. Models are extra.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/llamacpp/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Open source & local AI", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "LM Studio", "text": "LM Studio A desktop app for chatting with local models. Free to download. The desktop app is not open source.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/lm-studio/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Open source & local AI", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "LM Studio", "text": "A desktop app for running local models, with a chat window. Free download. Redistribution is governed by the terms, not by an MIT grant.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/lmstudio/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Open source & local AI", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "Luma AI", "text": "Hosted image and video generation, including Ray models. Plus is $30 a month, or $25 billed yearly, with 10,000 credits. Pro is $90, or $75 yearly.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/luma/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Video", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Luma Dream Machine", "text": "Luma AI Hosted video and image generation. Plus is $30 a month, or $25 billed yearly, with 10,000 credits. Pro is $90, or $75 yearly, with 40,000 credits.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/luma-dream-machine/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Video", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Make", "text": "Make Hosted scenarios that connect apps, billed in credits. Free includes 1,000 credits a month. Most actions cost one credit. Credits expire at the end of the term. AI steps can cost more.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/make/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Agents", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "Make", "text": "A hosted automation tool that bills in credits per action. The free plan includes 1,000 credits a month. Paid plans sell larger credit bundles. Extra credits are sold in packs of 1,000 or 10,000.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/make/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Agents", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "learn", "kind": "Explainer", "title": "MCP is the adapter. Permission is still the socket.", "text": "Understand tool interoperability without mistaking a connection for a safety guarantee. Explain MCP clients, servers and tools Separate tool results from instructions", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/learn/mcp-and-tool-permissions/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Agents, Agent infrastructure", "verdict": null }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "Meta", "text": "Publisher of the Llama open-weight models. The download page and the community license are the terms. There is no single monthly price for the weights.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/meta/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Models", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "Microsoft", "text": "Microsoft 365 Copilot for work and Copilot Studio for building agents. Microsoft 365 plans vary by license and billing commitment. Copilot Studio offers prepaid and pay-as-you-go consumption.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/microsoft/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "AI for work", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Microsoft 365 Copilot", "text": "Microsoft Workplace AI integrated with Microsoft 365 applications, with license-dependent capabilities. Plan and license dependent; the public page combines annual commitments, promotions and advanced-AI consumption billing. Verify the eligible SKU.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/microsoft-365-copilot/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "AI for work", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Microsoft Copilot Studio", "text": "Microsoft A platform for creating, deploying and managing custom agents connected to business workflows. Prepaid or pay-as-you-go consumption; public page lists 25,000-credit packs at $200/pack/month. Credit use varies by action.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/copilot-studio/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Agents", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "MiniMax", "text": "Publisher of MiniMax open-weight models and a hosted product. The model card states the grant. A hosted plan is a different purchase.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/minimax/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Models", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "MiniMax weights", "text": "MiniMax MiniMax open-weight checkpoints. Download terms are on the model card. A hosted MiniMax plan is a different product.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/minimax-weights/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Models", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "Mistral AI", "text": "Vibe assistant and APIs including document OCR. Vibe has Free, Pro and Team options. API billing depends on model or service; OCR is priced by pages rather than chat subscription seats.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/mistral/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Models", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Mistral OCR", "text": "Mistral AI A document OCR API for extracting content from documents, documented in Mistral’s document AI guide. OCR is billed per 1,000 pages rather than ordinary chat tokens; downstream model use is separate.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/mistral-ocr/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Agent infrastructure", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Mistral open weights", "text": "Mistral Mistral models you can download, as distinct from the paid API. Some Mistral checkpoints are Apache 2.0. The hosted API is a separate bill. Read the card.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/mistral-open/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Models", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Mistral Studio", "text": "Mistral Mistral's hosted place to run agents and workflows. The announcement describes managed agents, workflows, and apps in the cloud, a VPC, or on premises. It does not list a starter price.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/mistral-studio/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Agents", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Mistral Vibe", "text": "Mistral AI An assistant experience with chat, search, creation and coding access described on the pricing page. Free access with limits; Pro and Team subscriptions available. Limits, taxes and API-credit benefits vary by plan.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/mistral-vibe/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Agents", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "Moonshot AI", "text": "Maker of Kimi, including open-weight Kimi checkpoints. Download terms are on each model card. A hosted Kimi account is a separate product.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/moonshot/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Models", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "n8n", "text": "n8n A workflow tool with AI nodes. Source-available, not OSI open source. Starter is 20 euros a month billed annually. Pro is 50 euros. The community edition is free for your own internal use.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/n8n/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Open source & local AI", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "n8n", "text": "A source-available workflow tool with AI nodes. Cloud plans start at 20 euros a month billed annually for Starter, and 50 euros for Pro. The community edition is free for internal use.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/n8n/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Open source & local AI", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Ollama", "text": "Ollama A local runner for open-weight chat models. Free to download. The app license is MIT. Each model you pull has its own license.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/ollama/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Open source & local AI", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "Ollama", "text": "A local app and server for running open-weight models. Free to download. The application license is MIT. Model licenses are separate.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/ollama/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Open source & local AI", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Open WebUI", "text": "Open WebUI A chat interface you host in front of Ollama or another model server. Free to self-host. The license restricts branding changes above a stated user count.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/open-webui/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Open source & local AI", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "Open WebUI", "text": "A self-hosted chat interface for local and remote models. Free to run. Branding rules are in the license, not in a price table.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/open-webui/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Open source & local AI", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "learn", "kind": "Explainer", "title": "Open weights are not a free lunch with a GPU garnish", "text": "Separate access to model files from licenses, hosting costs and operational ownership. Distinguish open weights from open source Compare managed and self-hosted responsibilities", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/learn/open-weights-versus-hosted/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Models, Agent infrastructure", "verdict": null }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "OpenAI", "text": "ChatGPT and model APIs for writing, analysis and application development. ChatGPT has a free version and paid per-user plans. API usage is billed separately by model, tokens and tools.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/openai/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Models", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "OpenAI Responses API", "text": "OpenAI A model API surface with usage billed at the selected model and tool rates. No separate Responses API fee; model tokens and tool usage are billed. Example: GPT-6.1 Terra standard short-context $1/M input and $5/M output tokens.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/openai-responses-api/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Models", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "Perplexity", "text": "Model APIs with search tools, plus a standalone web-search API. Agent API uses model-specific token rates plus separate tool charges. Search API is $5/1,000 successful requests, or $1/1,000 for Fast Search.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/perplexity/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Search & research", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Perplexity Agent API", "text": "Perplexity An API providing third-party model access with token-based billing and separately priced tools. Model-specific token rates; tool calls such as web search add separate charges. See the public API rate card.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/perplexity-agent-api/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Search & research", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Perplexity Search API", "text": "Perplexity A web-search API with separate request-based billing listed in Perplexity’s rate card. Search API: $5 per 1,000 successful requests; Fast Search: $1 per 1,000 successful requests. No token billing for Search API.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/perplexity-search-api/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Search & research", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Perplexity Teammates", "text": "Perplexity Personal agents that run long projects, remember goals and files across runs, and report back. Perplexity Max subscribers; web now, iOS soon", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/perplexity-teammates/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Agents", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Qwen", "text": "Alibaba Cloud Alibaba's Qwen open-weight family. Many Qwen cards use Apache 2.0. Confirm the card. A hosted DashScope bill is separate.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/qwen/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Models", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "learn", "kind": "Explainer", "title": "RAG gives your model a reading list, not a truth serum", "text": "How retrieval-augmented generation connects evidence to an answer—and where it can still fail. Trace a retrieval pipeline Distinguish retrieval errors from generation errors", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/learn/rag-without-the-magic/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Build & deploy, Agent infrastructure, Search & research", "verdict": null }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "Replit", "text": "A hosted workspace that builds and runs apps from a prompt. A free mode is listed. Personal is $20 a month, or $18 billed annually, with $20 toward models. Commercial is $100 a month, or $90 billed annually.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/replit/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Coding agents", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Replit Agent", "text": "Replit A hosted agent that builds and deploys apps inside Replit. Free mode is listed. Personal is $20 a month or $18 billed annually, with $20 toward models. Commercial is $100 or $90 billed annually.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/replit-agent/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Coding agents", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Runway", "text": "Runway A hosted studio for AI video and images. Free includes 125 one-time credits. Standard is $12 a month billed yearly. Pro is $28. Max is $76. Models spend credits at different rates.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/runway/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Video", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "Runway", "text": "A hosted studio for generated video, images, and audio. Free plan with 125 one-time credits. Standard is $12 a month billed yearly. Pro is $28. Max is $76.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/runway/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Video", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "Stability AI", "text": "Publisher of Stable Diffusion and related image models. Weights are free to download under the license on the model card. That license adds use limits.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/stability/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Video", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Stable Diffusion", "text": "Stability AI The Stable Diffusion image models. Weights are free to download under the license on the model card, which adds use restrictions.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/stable-diffusion/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Video", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "learn", "kind": "Explainer", "title": "Stop writing magic spells. Write a useful brief.", "text": "A reusable prompt structure built around task, context, constraints and an inspectable output. Write an actionable task brief Separate instructions from source material", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/learn/prompting-with-a-brief/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "AI for work, AI basics", "verdict": null }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Synthesia", "text": "Synthesia Scripted avatar video. Basic is free. Starter is $19 a month, or $14 a month billed yearly. Pro is sold in credit tiers.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/synthesia/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Video", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "Synthesia", "text": "Scripted avatar video for explainers and training. Basic is $0. Starter is $19 a month, or $14 a month billed yearly. Pro credit tiers are listed separately.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/synthesia/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Video", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Tavily", "text": "Tavily Search API credits for agents. Free Researcher plan: 1,000 API credits a month, no card. Paid use is pay as you go. Credit cost depends on the request type.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/tavily/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Search & research", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "Tavily", "text": "A search API aimed at agents, with a free monthly credit. Researcher is free with 1,000 API credits a month and no card. Paid use is pay as you go. A Project plan is also listed.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/tavily/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Search & research", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Issue", "title": "The great localhost escape", "text": "Cursor wants your side project to finally leave your laptop, Perplexity hands out agents with memory, and AWS sells answers by the call. Cursor Live Apps: prompt to hosted app, database and auth included. Watch (source-based). Perplexity Teammates: long-running agents with memory, Max-tier only. Watch. AWS Web Answer: cited web answers in one MCP call. Watch. Plus: Claude Code and Codex both got better at running unsupervised.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/issues/2026-11-07-the-localhost-escape/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Coding agents, Agents, Agent infrastructure", "verdict": null }, { "type": "learn", "kind": "Explainer", "title": "The workplace AI checklist: helpful, not accidentally public", "text": "Choose low-risk workflows, protect data and measure real effort saved without outsourcing accountability. Classify data before using a tool Design a review and approval workflow", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/learn/safe-workplace-ai/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "AI for work, Agents", "verdict": null }, { "type": "learn", "kind": "Explainer", "title": "Tokens, context and memory: three different tabs on the bill", "text": "Decode the units behind model limits without pretending a token is always a word. Explain context versus stored memory Read input and output billing units", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/learn/tokens-context-and-memory/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "AI basics, Models", "verdict": null }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "v0", "text": "Vercel A generation and editing product with visual design, code and Vercel deployment workflows. Free and paid plans; paid usage includes credit allowances and additional-credit purchases. Confirm the selected billing term.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/v0/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Build & deploy", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "Vercel", "text": "The AI SDK for developers and v0 for generating and editing applications. v0 has free and paid plans with credits. AI SDK usage still requires paying for the selected model and hosting services.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/vercel/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Build & deploy", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Vercel AI SDK", "text": "Vercel A TypeScript toolkit with provider abstractions and UI building blocks for AI applications. Model provider and hosting charges remain separate. The SDK overview does not quote a per-request SDK subscription.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/vercel-ai-sdk/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Build & deploy", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "vLLM", "text": "vLLM An Apache-licensed server for open-weight models. Free under Apache 2.0. You pay for the GPUs.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/vllm/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Open source & local AI", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "vLLM", "text": "A server for serving open-weight models behind an API. The software is free under Apache 2.0. Compute is your cost.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/vllm/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Open source & local AI", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Whisper", "text": "OpenAI OpenAI's open speech-recognition models and code. The repository is free to download. OpenAI's hosted transcription API is a separate, metered product.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/whisper/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Voice & audio", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "learn", "kind": "Explainer", "title": "Your AI demo needs a report card and a receipt", "text": "Evaluate quality and total cost per acceptable outcome instead of celebrating one lucky output. Write a small evaluation rubric Calculate cost per successful task", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/learn/evals-and-cost-per-success/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Build & deploy, Agent infrastructure", "verdict": null }, { "type": "company", "kind": "Company", "title": "Zapier", "text": "Workflow automation and MCP access to connected application actions. Free and paid task-based plans. MCP is included in each plan; each MCP tool call uses two tasks from the shared quota.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/companies/zapier/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Agents", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Zapier MCP", "text": "Zapier An MCP connection layer for actions in applications connected to Zapier. Included in every Zapier plan; each tool call uses two tasks from the shared task quota.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/zapier-mcp/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Agents", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Zapier workflows", "text": "Zapier Task-based automation combining app workflows, data tables and forms. Free and paid task-based plans; allowance, task type and billing commitment affect the bill.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/zapier-workflows/", "date": "2026-11-07", "topic": "Agents", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "Can the agent read a messy lab bench?", "text": "OpenAI and Ligo published BioBasicsBench, 100 tasks about raw wet-lab evidence, including the times the data cannot support a conclusion. It scores agents. It does not hand you a lab partner. OpenAI", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/biobasicsbench/", "date": "2026-11-06", "topic": "Search & research", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Claude Code 2.1.319", "text": "Anthropic Background MCP tasks and a permissions.denyInsteadOfPrompting setting for unattended runs. Existing Claude Code plans", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/claude-code-2-1-319/", "date": "2026-11-06", "topic": "Coding agents", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "Claude's memory gets a dreaming pass", "text": "Anthropic's engineering post describes how Claude chooses what to remember, including a dreaming pass that organizes memory and corrects mistakes. It explains the product. It does not hand you a new setting. You cannot schedule the dream from the blog post. Anthropic", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/anthropic-agent-memory/", "date": "2026-11-06", "topic": "Agents", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "OpenAI hired a bug hunter for its own house", "text": "OpenAI will work with Hacktron to hunt bugs in OpenAI's own systems, especially where those systems touch third parties. Hacktron also gets broader Daybreak Red access. This is a security program. There is no switch in your settings. OpenAI", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/openai-hacktron/", "date": "2026-11-06", "topic": "Agents", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "Perplexity's changelog mentions a local Mac app", "text": "A November 6 changelog note lists a fully local Computer on Mac, plus a voice mode next to Teammates. The note does not spell out plan limits. Read it before you promise either feature in Slack. Perplexity changelog", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/perplexity-local-mac/", "date": "2026-11-06", "topic": "Agents", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "You can phone a Cursor agent now", "text": "You can talk to a Cursor agent while it works, on the desktop app, the web, and iOS. The call runs on Grok Voice. Dictation is still the quieter cousin: it only types into the box. Cursor changelog", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/cursor-voice-chat/", "date": "2026-11-06", "topic": "Coding agents", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "A leaked Claude key can be fenced in", "text": "Claude Console organizations can set an IP allowlist, in beta, with up to 1,000 addresses or ranges. Requests from anywhere else are refused, which limits what a leaked key can reach. It does not replace rotating the key. Change the locks too. Claude Platform release notes", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/claude-ip-allowlist/", "date": "2026-11-05", "topic": "Agent infrastructure", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "A speech model small enough to live on the device", "text": "Gradium's Phonon runs without a server, in about 65 MB and 75 MB sizes, across five languages. The English 31-million-parameter model is Apache 2.0. The other models are non-commercial. Local does not mean \"sell it in your app.\" Hugging Face", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/phonon-tts/", "date": "2026-11-05", "topic": "Voice & audio", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "AWS will answer the web in one tool call", "text": "Web Answer on Bedrock AgentCore is generally available and returns a cited answer over MCP. It is billed per call and, for now, only in US East (N. Virginia). If your stack lives somewhere else, this is a postcard. AWS", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/aws-web-answer/", "date": "2026-11-05", "topic": "Agent infrastructure", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "Baidu shipped a base model, not a chatbot you can ping", "text": "ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base is a 280-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts checkpoint, 14 billion active, stopped before instruction tuning. The license does not cover the EU, the UK, or South Korea. Check the map before the model card gets you excited. Baidu ERNIE", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/ernie-5-5-flash-base/", "date": "2026-11-05", "topic": "Models", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "Claude Enterprise can sign someone out everywhere", "text": "Claude Enterprise admins can sign a member out of Claude everywhere, in beta, through the Admin API. The person stays in the organization and can sign in again. It is an off switch for sessions. Their name stays on the company list. Claude Platform release notes", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/claude-sign-out/", "date": "2026-11-05", "topic": "Agents", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Codex CLI 0.167", "text": "OpenAI An agent command center (codex agents) that flags unread results across several agents. Free CLI; model usage billed by plan", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/codex-cli-0-167/", "date": "2026-11-05", "topic": "Coding agents", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Cursor Live Apps", "text": "Cursor A cloud agent builds the app, sets up a database and auth, and publishes it to a shareable link. Requires a cloud agent on a paid Cursor plan", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/cursor-live-apps/", "date": "2026-11-05", "topic": "Build & deploy", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "Cursor will build the app, then wait for you to hit publish", "text": "A cloud agent can scaffold an app, add Postgres and Cursor sign-in, and deploy it after security checks. You need a paid plan with cloud agents. Nothing goes live until you explicitly publish. Cursor changelog", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/cursor-live-apps/", "date": "2026-11-05", "topic": "Build & deploy", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "Fifteen seconds of video, priced like a coffee add-on", "text": "Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash makes native clips up to 15 seconds. Google priced 720p at $0.07 a second, 30% under Omni 1.1. It is generally available on the Gemini API and Google Cloud, and it stamps a SynthID watermark. Google", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/gemini-omni-1-2-flash/", "date": "2026-11-05", "topic": "Models", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "GPT-6 Cyber is not your Monday chatbot", "text": "OpenAI's new cybersecurity model is rated Critical under its Preparedness Framework and starts with approved Daybreak Red customers. It finds and fixes vulnerabilities inside an authorized scope. The all-hands email is still your job. OpenAI", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/gpt-6-cyber/", "date": "2026-11-05", "topic": "Models", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "Inkling 2 Small is big, closed, and on Tinker first", "text": "Thinking Machines' new model has 594 billion parameters, 17 billion active, and a score of 31 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. Weights stay closed until outside safety testing. Apache 2.0 is the plan, not today's license. Thinking Machines Lab", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/inkling-2-small/", "date": "2026-11-05", "topic": "Models", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "NTT DATA orders 900 megawatts of fuel cells", "text": "NTT DATA said on November 5 it will deploy 900 megawatts of Bloom Energy fuel cells across data center projects, with first shipments planned for 2027. The release calls this Bloom's largest international project, and says the cells make electricity without combustion. Bloom flags the megawatts, the start date, and any expansion as forward-looking. Nothing in the release is a site you can tour. NTT DATA", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/ntt-bloom-fuel-cells/", "date": "2026-11-05", "topic": "Infrastructure", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "OpenAI wrote a note to the towns it builds in", "text": "OpenAI published community commitments for the places it builds infrastructure, plus policy proposals it says would spread the benefits. Read it as a company position. It will not pick your next API. OpenAI", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/openai-infrastructure/", "date": "2026-11-05", "topic": "Agent infrastructure", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Web Answer on Bedrock AgentCore", "text": "AWS One call returns a synthesized, cited web answer for your agent, over MCP. Per-tool-call pricing; US East (N. Virginia) only", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/aws-web-answer/", "date": "2026-11-05", "topic": "Agent infrastructure", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "A lab pipeline wrote 948 Linux exploits", "text": "OpenAI says a research pipeline produced working local privilege-escalation exploits for 948 Linux kernel issues and drafted patches. The post puts that run at $1,213,430 in API credits. It is a controlled lab result. You cannot point this at the office server. OpenAI", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/openai-linux-lpe/", "date": "2026-11-04", "topic": "Search & research", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "ChatGPT images learned how to loop", "text": "Images 2.6 is in ChatGPT, Codex, and the API, with GIF output and generation OpenAI says is 50% faster than before. It is available on every ChatGPT subscription tier. Your mascot can wave. A person still has to approve it. OpenAI", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/images-2-6/", "date": "2026-11-04", "topic": "Models", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "CUDA 13.5 shows up for Vera Rubin", "text": "NVIDIA's toolkit release adds general-availability support for the Vera Rubin architecture and extends Windows on Arm to DGX Station. If you already build on CUDA, this is the upgrade note, not a new app for your lunch break. NVIDIA", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/cuda-13-5/", "date": "2026-11-04", "topic": "Agent infrastructure", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "Google published a report card for health AI", "text": "Google published a health-AI evaluation framework written with outside clinicians. It looks at accuracy, safety, and usefulness, using benchmarks, autoraters, and expert review. The post shares the method. It does not publish a score for a model you can buy. Google", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/google-health-eval/", "date": "2026-11-04", "topic": "Search & research", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "OpenAI wants the Git tools already inside Codex", "text": "OpenAI says it will acquire Pierre Computer, maker of Code Storage and the Trees and Diffs libraries already used in Codex. The deal has not closed. The companies stay separate until it does. Your repo does not move houses today. OpenAI", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/openai-pierre/", "date": "2026-11-04", "topic": "Coding agents", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "Perplexity's teammates are a Max-plan hire", "text": "Teammates are personal agents for work that runs past one prompt, and they keep project memory across runs. Perplexity is launching them on the web for Max subscribers, with iOS listed as later. Not on Max? You are watching the trailer. Perplexity", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/perplexity-teammates/", "date": "2026-11-04", "topic": "Agents", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Tencent Hy4", "text": "Tencent Open-source-bound model with vision and computer use; weights promised \"in the coming days.\" About $0.90 / $2.70 per million tokens", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/tencent-hy4/", "date": "2026-11-04", "topic": "Models", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "Long documents still lose the plot", "text": "Ai2's StateBench checks whether a model can track changing facts across a long document, at four levels of difficulty. Frontier models handle the easy levels and break down on the hardest long ones. It is a benchmark. It will not file your contracts. Allen Institute for AI", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/statebench/", "date": "2026-11-03", "topic": "Search & research", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "Some Claude text now carries a watermark", "text": "As of November 3, text from Claude Mythos 5, Opus 4.7, and Sonnet 4.6 carries Anthropic's text watermark on the platforms named in its marking guide. On Sonnet 4.6, a non-default temperature, top_p, or top_k may skip the mark. Claude Platform release notes", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/claude-text-watermark/", "date": "2026-11-03", "topic": "Models", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "A receipt that says the model was not swapped", "text": "Anthropic open-sourced FlashProve, a research prototype that proves a reply came from a committed set of weights. It is Apache 2.0 research code, not a Claude setting. Proving costs many times a normal answer. Nice receipt. Expensive printer. Anthropic", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/flashprove/", "date": "2026-11-02", "topic": "Agent infrastructure", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "Claude will hold the thread, for five minutes", "text": "Message threads are in public beta on the Claude Platform. After the first request, later turns send only the new messages and the previous response id. A thread expires five minutes after the last request. Anthropic says token use stays the same. Claude Platform release notes", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/claude-message-threads/", "date": "2026-11-02", "topic": "Agents", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "GPT-Live can place the phone call", "text": "Outbound SIP calling is now available to every organization on the Live API. You connect GPT-Live to a number through your own SIP provider. The changelog is the availability note. The price sits on a separate pricing page. You still bring the phone plan. OpenAI API changelog", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/openai-live-sip/", "date": "2026-11-02", "topic": "Voice & audio", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "LifeVal grades the errands, not the trivia night", "text": "LifeVal is OpenAI's evaluation of everyday tasks, from childcare and budgets to government paperwork. The post explains how the task list was built. It is a measurement project. You cannot switch it on in ChatGPT. OpenAI", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/lifeval/", "date": "2026-11-02", "topic": "Search & research", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "OpenAI raised the bounty for the bugs it missed", "text": "OpenAI raised Security Bug Bounty payouts on November 2. A critical finding in a core product such as ChatGPT, Codex, or the API now pays up to $30,000. Exceptional cases can pay more once bonuses are included. This is a researcher program, not a product setting. OpenAI", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/openai-bug-bounty/", "date": "2026-11-02", "topic": "Agent infrastructure", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "OpenAI's campuses would turn down the power", "text": "On November 2, OpenAI launched Grid Protectors, a plan for future compute campuses to cut electricity use when the local grid is strained. The Effingham County agreement with Georgia Power includes up to 1,000 megawatts of flexible demand response. OpenAI compares that with the average demand of roughly 700,000 households. The campus is still in development. A pledge is not a building with the lights on. OpenAI", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/openai-grid-protectors/", "date": "2026-11-02", "topic": "Infrastructure", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "A 4B model that clicks the screen and also codes", "text": "Microsoft published Mage-VL-Cowork, a 4-billion-parameter agent that mixes on-screen actions with a terminal, under Apache 2.0. It reports 66.0% on OSWorld-Verified with a 50-step budget. That figure is theirs. We did not sit it at a laptop. Microsoft Mage", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/mage-vl-cowork/", "date": "2026-11-01", "topic": "Agents", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "A filing, not a tour: Powerlattice and $86 million", "text": "GeekWire says an SEC filing shows Powerlattice raised $86 million and is seeking $111 million, with 18 investors so far. The filing does not name the round, and the company declined to comment. Powerlattice builds a power-delivery chiplet and says a shorter path to the processor can cut energy use by more than half. That cut is the company's claim. We did not open the filing or run the chip. GeekWire", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/powerlattice-sec-filing/", "date": "2026-10-30", "topic": "Infrastructure", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Issue", "title": "Four frontier models walk into a week", "text": "OpenAI made smart cheap, Google made a model you can't have, DeepMind made a world, and Mistral just handed out the weights. GPT-6.1 Terra: half the price, double the coding score (their numbers). Use. Gemini 4 Carbon: strongest Gemini yet, locked to cyber defenders. Watch. Genie 4: playable worlds, research preview. Ignore (for now). Mistral Large 4 weights and Kimi K3.1 Pro keep open models in the fight.", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/issues/2026-10-30-model-week-from-heck/", "date": "2026-10-30", "topic": "Models", "verdict": null }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "FuriosaAI raised $620 million for inference chips", "text": "SiliconANGLE reported on October 28 that FuriosaAI raised $620 million to scale its inference chips. The company put the valuation at $2.9 billion, and South Korea's National Growth Fund put in $280 million of the round. The article says the chips use less than half the power of Nvidia's GPUs. That comparison is not a test we ran. A bigger round is not a bigger power line. SiliconANGLE", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/furiosaai-620m/", "date": "2026-10-28", "topic": "Infrastructure", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Gemini 4 Carbon", "text": "Google Google's strongest model for cybersecurity and long-horizon tasks. $2 / $10 per million tokens introductory, when available", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/gemini-4-carbon/", "date": "2026-10-28", "topic": "Models", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "Gemini 4 Carbon is announced. The door is still locked.", "text": "Google calls Carbon its strongest model and is starting with a subset of cyber defenders, then trusted partners in the Fairwind program. Introductory API pricing is $2 in and $10 out per million tokens. A general release is not dated. Google", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/gemini-4-carbon/", "date": "2026-10-28", "topic": "Models", "verdict": "watch" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "Genie 4", "text": "Google DeepMind Real-time interactive world simulation with native audio. Research preview, waitlist", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/genie-4/", "date": "2026-10-27", "topic": "Models", "verdict": "ignore" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "Genie 4 builds a world, then hands you a waitlist", "text": "DeepMind's Genie 4 generates interactive worlds with native audio. The rollout is a research preview for trusted testers, plus a waitlist. You cannot put this on a work project this week. The trailer is not the product. Google DeepMind", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/genie-4/", "date": "2026-10-27", "topic": "Models", "verdict": "ignore" }, { "type": "tool", "kind": "Tool", "title": "GPT-6.1 Terra", "text": "OpenAI Fast, cheaper model for computer use, visual reasoning, writing and coding. API prices 50% below GPT-5.6 Terra (reported $1 / $5 per million tokens)", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/tools/gpt-6-1-terra/", "date": "2026-10-26", "topic": "Models", "verdict": "use" }, { "type": "news", "kind": "Brief", "title": "GPT-6.1 Terra is the cheaper workhorse", "text": "OpenAI's fast workhorse is in the API at $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output. OpenAI says that is 50% below GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-6.1 Sol. Paid ChatGPT Work and Codex plans can use it too. OpenAI", "url": "https://loadedtokens.com/newsfeed/gpt-6-1-terra/", "date": "2026-10-26", "topic": "Models", "verdict": "use" } ] }