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Here's the insane part: Google puts "training data" and "chat history" behind one toggle called "Keep Activity." Leave it on and you feed the model by default, paid users and all. Turn it off and you're out of training, but you also lose your chat memory and linked apps. For anything sensitive, stick to Temporary Chat.

You talk out loud with Lily, live. She answers, and she asks follow-ups, so it lands closer to a real conversation than to a lesson. That's the part that makes it useful for speaking. • New Super accounts get unlimited calls already. Anyone on Super before today gets them before the year is out. • Duolingo stops selling Max this month. Individual Max users get switched to Super Family at the price they pay now. • Cost per call went from $0.30 to under $0.01, mostly because they moved to open-source models. Six languages for now: English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese.

. It's their open-source flagship, and somehow it's stronger, steadier, and cheaper than the preview at the same time. It can see now. First one with vision: charts, math, fine-grained images, it reads them without tripping up. It also knows how to drive a computer. Blender, CAD, GUI or CLI, it works them directly. Pricing, per million tokens: - Input ~$0.90 - Output ~$2.70 - Cached input ~$0.045 A cheaper HY4 Flash is coming too. Freebies for now: - Nov 4–15: WorkBuddy and CodeBuddy are free - Tencent Cloud TokenHub half off through Dec 31, 2026

OC co-founder Dax says they figured out how to give people $300 of DeepSeek credits for ~$10. If that holds up, it's a steal.
