Welcome to AI HQ Daily

Most AI newsletters are written the night before and are out of date by the time they land. AI HQ Daily takes a different approach: the words are ours, but every number on this page is pulled from provider listings when you open it. If a price changes or a model appears after we publish, the figures below move with it.

Each issue is deliberately short. One or two paragraphs of context, a live view of what is new, and the numbers that matter for anyone paying per token. No hype, no leaderboards we cannot back up, and no scores we invented ourselves.

How to read the release list

The dates shown are when a model first appeared on the aggregated listing we track, which is usually within a day of the vendor announcement but is not the vendor's own release date. Pricing is the list rate for the primary route; cached-input and batch discounts are not shown here.

A flurry of small releases from one provider often means variants of the same base model (different context sizes, speed tiers or regions) rather than genuinely new capability. Check the model page before drawing conclusions.

What comes next

Issues will appear on weekdays when there is something worth saying, and the archive stays here so you can see how the picture changed. Subscribe below if you would rather have it arrive by email; the newsletter version uses the same blocks, frozen at send time.