For anyone generating content in automations, there was a new model released yesterday that is quite a bit cheaper than GPT 4o, and is much smarter called Deepseek R1. I've replaced a lot of my API calls with it, and it's saving me a lot of money. (It's actually good too). I am not using it for highly stylized content though. https://chat.deepseek.com/

A handful of AI companies are offering free credits today (e.g. 3 months from to elevenlabs, etc.). Nothing big, but might ease the friction of trying some of the tools out or experimenting. E.g. $50 of credit to Fal.ai which hosts a significant percentage of the best generative models (Flux Pro 1.1, Minimax 01-live, etc.). They sold out of their first offering a few weeks ago, and here's their second run. If you're interested. https://www.aiengineerpack.com/