AI DUNN Right Newsletter - Issue #31
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Practical AI insights for business growth
Hey AI Innovators! 👋
Big week.
A Chinese AI lab just undercut every US competitor on price. By a lot. Google bet $40 billion on Anthropic. And a locked-down AI model ended up in a Discord server within 24 hours of launch.Here’s what it all means for you and your business:
DeepSeek V4 is out and it costs a fraction of ChatGPT or Claude
Google doubles down on Anthropic with a massive investment
Meta is logging everything its employees do at their computers
Yelp now books your table, orders your food, and schedules your appointments. All in one chat.
New tools worth trying this week
⏱ Read time: 7 minutes
Big Story
AI Just Got Way Cheaper. Here’s What That Means for You.
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI lab that rattled Silicon Valley last year, is back. And this time, they didn’t just make a great model. They made a great model at a price that makes every US competitor look expensive.
They released two versions on April 24:
DeepSeek V4-Pro - their most powerful model yet. Handles huge amounts of text at once (up to 750,000 words in a single conversation)
DeepSeek V4-Flash - a faster, lighter version built for everyday use
The price difference is striking:
DeepSeek V4-Pro: $3.48 per million output tokens
OpenAI (GPT-5.5): $30 per million output tokens
Anthropic (Claude Opus): $25 per million output tokens
DeepSeek V4-Flash: just $0.28, less than 1% of what OpenAI charges
It’s also open-source, meaning anyone can download it and use it for free.
What does this mean for your business?
If you’re paying for AI tools through a third-party app, those providers may start cutting costs (or their margins just got bigger)
If you’re a developer building AI-powered products, this changes your cost equation completely
If you’re just using AI tools day-to-day, you now have a serious free alternative worth testing
Try it at chat.deepseek.com
What’s New This Week
Google Puts $40 Billion Behind Anthropic
This is a big one. Google announced it’s investing up to $40 billion in Anthropic, the company behind Claude.
$10 billion goes in now, valuing Anthropic at $350 billion
$30 billion more follows if Anthropic hits certain targets
Amazon also added another $5 billion this week
Google Cloud will provide 5 gigawatts of computing power over the next five years
Why it matters to you: Claude isn’t going anywhere. In fact, it’s getting significantly more resources. If you use Claude for your business, this is a stability signal.
A Discord Group Accessed Anthropic’s Most Restricted AI in 24 Hours
Anthropic launched a powerful new model called Mythos, restricted to governments and enterprise partners only due to its cybersecurity capabilities. It lasted about 24 hours before a private Discord group accessed it.
How? They pieced together Anthropic’s URL patterns using data from a previous security breach and used a borrowed login from a contractor at a partner company.
The lesson for business owners:
This is a vendor risk story.
Every tool your business uses has a chain of companies behind it
Every contractor, partner, and vendor login is a potential weak link
As AI gets more powerful, access control becomes a real business responsibility, ….not just a tech problem
Meta Is Logging Every Keystroke Its Employees Make
Meta launched a tool that records screenshots, keystrokes, and mouse clicks on all US employee laptops, with no option to opt out. The goal: train AI on how real people actually do their jobs.
The uncomfortable part:
Around 8,000 Meta employees are being laid off in May
Meta is capturing exactly how those employees work, before they leave
That data will be used to train AI to do those jobs
Meanwhile, Meta and Microsoft are both cutting thousands of jobs while increasing AI investment. This is the trade-off playing out in real time.
What this means for entrepreneurs: The companies capturing the most real-world work data right now will have a significant AI advantage in 2–3 years. Think about what data you’re already sitting on in your business.
Yelp Now Does More Than Just Recommendations
Yelp expanded its AI assistant so you can go from “I want Thai food” to “table booked for 7pm” inside a single conversation. No switching apps, no phone calls.
Books reservations
Orders food
Schedules services
Pulls from Yelp’s full database to find and execute the task
The bigger picture: AI is moving from giving you information to completing tasks for you. If your business relies on bookings or enquiries, this shift is worth tracking closely. Your customers’ expectations are changing fast.
Tools Worth Your Time
3 Tools to Try This Week
🔍 Perplexity Comet - Free Research Agent
Used to cost $200/month. Now free on iPhone, Android, Windows, and Mac.
Does deep research and hands you a finished output, not just a summary
Can create PowerPoint presentations, spreadsheets, and dashboards from a single prompt
Best for: Anyone who spends time researching topics, writing reports, or prepping for meetings
🎨 Midjourney V8.1 - Faster, Cheaper Image Generation
HD images now 3x faster and 3x cheaper than before
Standard resolution is 50% faster and 25% cheaper
New Prompt Shortener feature makes it easier to get what you want
Best for: Marketing visuals, social media content, product mockups
📊 Gemini in Google Workspace - The AI Already in Your Office
If your team uses Gmail, Docs, Sheets, or Calendar, this is already available to you
Can draft a full project brief by pulling together your emails, meeting notes, and documents automatically
70% success rate on complex spreadsheet tasks from plain-language requests
Best for: Anyone already living inside Google Workspace who hasn’t turned this on yet
Positive Innovations
AI Doing Good This Week
🏥 Amazon launched a free Health AI agent for Prime members. It answers health questions, interprets lab results, manages prescription renewals, and books doctor appointments via chat.
🧠 AI clinical note tools are now saving doctors nearly 43 seconds per patient encounter. Small number, big impact across thousands of appointments per day.
📐 Google DeepMind’s AlphaEvolve used AI to solve long-standing open problems in mathematics. The kind of breakthrough that takes human researchers years.
📈 Businesses using AI are 24% more productive than those that don’t, according to new research. And that gap is growing every quarter.
Quick Hits
Worth Knowing
The UAE announced it will deploy AI across 50% of all government services within two years, with mandatory AI training for every federal employee. First country to commit at this scale.
Florida’s attorney general opened a criminal investigation into OpenAI following a campus shooting, reviewing ChatGPT conversation logs. AI accountability is moving into legal territory.
A new PwC study found that 74% of AI’s economic value goes to just 20% of companies. The ones using AI to grow revenue, not just cut costs.
A survey found Claude users earn significantly more than users of other AI services. Make of that what you will. 😄
Alibaba released its most powerful AI model yet. Qwen 3.6 Max. Chinese AI is no longer playing catch-up.
Prompt of the Week
Turn Your Website Data Into Conversion Wins
Most business owners have Google Analytics or Hotjar installed and never actually use the data. This prompt turns your AI into a conversion analyst who tells you exactly what to fix and where to start.
Why this works...Most people install analytics tools and never look at them. This prompt gives AI a clear brief and asks for specific, actionable outputs, not a wall of theory. Fill in the brackets and you’ll have a prioritised fix list in under a minute.
Best use case...Any business owner with a website or landing page that isn’t converting as well as it should. Especially useful before running paid ads, because sending traffic to a broken page is just an expensive way to find out it’s broken.
Jackie’s Take
What This Week Actually Means
The DeepSeek story and the Google/Anthropic investment are really two sides of the same coin.
On one side: a Chinese lab releasing powerful AI at one-sixth the cost of US competitors. Built on domestic chips, open-sourced for anyone to download.
On the other: Google committing $40 billion to make sure Anthropic keeps building, mostly for enterprise and government clients.
What does this mean for you?
The cost of powerful AI is dropping fast
What was expensive six months ago is either free or a fraction of the price now
74% of AI’s economic value is going to 20% of businesses. The ones actually using it strategically.
The question is no longer whether you can afford AI tools. It’s whether you’re building the habit before your competitors do.
Small steps. Consistent use. That’s still the strategy that works.
See you next week. 💛
Jackie
P.S. DeepSeek V4 is live and free to try at chat.deepseek.com. Even if you never use it in production, knowing what it can do helps you ask smarter questions about every other AI tool you’re paying for.
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