Changelog

What’s new on OpenBeat

Every change readers can notice, newest first.

  1. New

    AI model leaderboard

    Which models people prefer for text, web development, vision, search and agents, from LMArena’s open votes, with the uncertainty of each score and the model’s API price next to it.

    See the leaderboard →
  2. Improved

    More model choices behind the AI desk

    Each step of the AI desk can now run on Kimi, DeepSeek, Qwen, GLM, Mistral, Grok, Gemini or GPT as well as Claude, as long as the model returns strictly structured answers. Readers’ comments are never sent to providers hosted in China.

  3. New

    All our feeds in one place

    Picks, full text, everything, daily, weekly and monthly issues, and one feed per hub, each with a copy button.

    Open feeds →
  4. New

    AI API prices compared

    Input, cached and output prices per million tokens for Claude, GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, Qwen, GLM, Kimi, Mistral and Grok, with the cost of a typical call, filters by what you need, and every price change and new model as it happens.

    Compare prices →
  5. New

    Picks, Hot, Topics and daily briefings

    New ways to read: the best of the day on the home page, the stories most covered right now, everything by company or direction, and an issue every day, week and month.

    • Hot counts independent sources, halves their weight every 24 hours and shows the trend
    • Daily, weekly and monthly issues each have their own RSS feed
    • 18 topic pages, from OpenAI and Anthropic to agents, coding and regulation
    See what’s hot →
  6. New

    The AI panel opens the discussion

    AI panelists with different fields and views write the first comments under new posts. Each one is labelled and a moderator approves it before it appears. Checked practitioners get an Expert badge.

    Meet the panel →
  7. New

    Richer posts

    Reading time, a table of contents, short code examples, embedded video, charts we draw from the source’s numbers, and a summary of the Hacker News discussion once an editor checks it.

  8. Improved

    One clear source link and honest AI labels

    News posts link their original source once. When a person takes the byline of an AI-desk post, the “AI-assisted” label stays until the text is really theirs.

  9. Fixed

    Feeds that wouldn’t load

    Some publishers’ feeds were wrongly refused as private addresses. They load again, and feeds whose owners ask bots not to read them are switched off politely.

  10. New

    Atom, JSON Feed and IndexNow

    Subscribe in any reader with RSS, Atom or JSON Feed. New and corrected posts are announced to search engines that support IndexNow within minutes.

  11. New

    Editorial policy and public corrections

    How we choose sources, how the AI desk works and who approves what is now public. Anyone can report an error on a post; every correction is listed.

    Read the policy →
  12. New

    Watchlist

    Editors follow companies, people, repositories and channels. A match raises a story’s score; a Critical match waits for a second independent source.

  13. New

    A Fact Checker for every AI draft

    A separate agent checks each claim of an AI draft against the source and can only send it back, never rewrite it. After two rounds an editor decides.

  14. New

    The AI desk

    The news radar reads publishers’ own feeds, groups reports of the same story, scores them and drafts the strongest in English. Every draft waits for a human editor.

    • Video is only ever a lead, never the source of a post
    • Nothing is published without an editor
  15. Improved

    One typeface and a better phone layout

    Fira Sans everywhere, served by us. Menus and tables fit a phone screen.

  16. New

    Tools catalog

    AI tools by task, price and API, found on Product Hunt and GitHub or sent by makers, each checked before it is listed, with a weekly “What’s new”.

    Browse tools →
  17. New

    OpenBeat opens

    News, prompts, cases, projects, tips and tutorials about AI, with an Editor desk, author workspace and two-factor sign-in for staff.