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Just shipped V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, API only. Text matches V4-Flash, but the multimodal side nearly keeps up with Opus-4.8. Another cheap vision model to throw at the pile.
that changing anytime soon. On price and capability combined, nothing else I've tried comes close at this point. Meta trains on my data? Fine by me. Most of my projects are open source anyway. Quick comparison vs DeepSeek: - Muse Spark 1.2 (xhigh): intelligence index 57, multimodal - DS V4 Pro 0813 (max): intelligence index 53, text only Input: Muse $0.10 vs DS $0.66 off-peak / $1.32 peak Output: Muse $0.20 vs DS $1.98 / $3.96 Cache: Muse $0.002 vs DS $0.022 / $0.044 Same ballpark capability, roughly 6-10x cheaper depending on what you're running.
You've probably run into those short videos lately where an agent drives a phone around by itself. This one is called Mika, and it's a free open-source project. It's an Android app that works in the background through accessibility mode, so it can use pretty much any other app you have installed. Reply to someone on WeChat, scroll Xiaohongshu, drop something in a cart and check out. It finds the buttons by looking at the screen. There's no API to wire up, and it doesn't care what resolution your phone is. When it reaches a payment step or a captcha it stops and lets you finish. 🔗 github.com/wangzan101/Mika
Someone on Xiaohongshu posted a while back that she sells phone keyboard skins she made with Codex. Eight, ten yuan a pack. Over a thousand a month. I've been at mine for months. October: a few hundred copies, $1,200 gross. Platform fee 30%, tax 10%, so 60% should have landed. It came to just over a thousand dollars. I still don't know how the math pulled that off. I have an overseas bank account. Once lost $500 to a wire transfer off one. I'd still tell you to take payout through WorldFirst: less hassle, lower fees. You can also get a Hong Kong USD credit card tied to it that spends your WorldFirst balance directly. Digital card is free. Physical is $4. Mainland purchases under ¥200 skip the processing fee, and right now there's 1% cashback.
