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Grokified has launched an independent, OpenAI-compatible proxy service that routes requests directly to the official xAI API at half the standard list price. The service adds less than 5ms of latency and maintains a zero prompt retention policy, passing all prompts, completions, and tool calls straight through without modification. The 50% discount applies to all Grok models, including text, reasoning, image, and vision capabilities, up to a maximum savings cap of $5,000. After reaching this threshold, developers retain a permanent 3% discount. To help users test the integration, the service offers $10 in free credits upon signup without requiring a credit card, which translates to $20 of active API usage.

Anthropic's community plugin repository includes an ELI5 skill for Claude that turns a topic into a deliberately simple visual explainer. The skill asks Claude to produce an HTML artifact with large illustrations and very little text, making it useful for onboarding, teaching, or translating a technical system for a non-specialist audience. It accepts a topic as its argument and can be installed from the public plugin repository. The implementation is intentionally small, so teams can inspect the prompt before using it or adapt the pattern for their own explanation skills. The repository page includes the skill definition and a short usage example.

The You developer platform now advertises $100 in introductory API credit for new accounts. Its free Web Search tier also includes 100 queries per day without an API key, while paid search starts at $5 per 1,000 calls. The same credit can be used across Search, Contents, Answer, Research, and Finance Research APIs. Search responses combine web and news results with structured metadata, snippets, freshness controls, and optional full-page extraction. Developers can also connect through the company's MCP endpoint. The offer is most useful for testing retrieval, grounding, research, or agent workflows before committing to usage-based billing.