About Daily Neural Digest
The pinned tab for developers shipping with AI.
Daily Neural Digest answers the six questions you ask while coding: what does this cost? how much context? can I run it locally? which GPU tonight? what's the license? what should I use instead? — with dated data, not vibes.
This site is published under the FTL Lab label. Everything here is produced by an automated pipeline: collectors read public APIs and feeds, a language model drafts each piece, and a quality gate validates it before publication. No human reviews the day's batch — we do not claim one.
What We Cover
Dated Data, Always
No price without a date. Tables on the site are rendered from timestamped JSON produced by API collectors — never invented by a language model.
East→West AI Tools
The best Chinese and Indian AI tools, libraries, and models Western developers don't know yet — with licenses re-verified via the GitHub API on every update.
License-Checked
Licenses are checked programmatically, not assumed. Non-commercial traps (CC BY-NC and friends) are flagged explicitly before we recommend anything.
Automated
Every page is produced by an automated pipeline under a published policy, and passes an automatic quality gate before it reaches the sitemap. No human reviews the day's batch — we do not claim one.
Fast & Open
A statically-generated site with sub-second load times, no paywall, no tracking popups.
The Rules
- No price without a date — every number carries "verified 03/09/2026" and a source.
- No license without a GitHub API check.
- No claim about a tool we haven't checked at source — licences, activity and figures come from the API or page that returns them.
- No page without an automated gate — every page is produced by the pipeline and checked before publication. No human reviews the day's batch, and we do not claim one.
- No news without an angle — we find the pattern behind the headlines and what it means for your stack.
Data Sources
- OpenRouter API — LLM prices, 400+ models
- Vast.ai / RunPod / Lambda — GPU $/hour
- Hugging Face Hub API — model checkpoints
- GitHub API — licenses & activity
- confs.tech / Luma / Devpost — events & prize money
- Ruan Yifeng Weekly, QbitAI, V2EX, sspai, TechCrunch India, Economic Times
- arXiv, Eurostat, EIA, Ofgem