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Stay up to date with all the latest features, improvements, and updates to Machined.

2026​

2026-01-07: New AI models and in-line editing​

New models​

  • Google Nano Banana: for AI images. Considered one of the best current AI image generators.
  • GPT-5.1: for AI text, one of OpenAI's most recent text models.

Inline AI editing​

We've also added inline AI editing to the text editor. You can now re-customize your content directly with short paragraph or sentence based edits e.g. shorten, lengthen, rewrite, or custom prompts.

2025​

2025-05-29: Heading Style​

We've just added a new Heading Style setting to V3 clusters

You can now choose between Title Case and Sentence Case for headings in articles. The setting will affect auto-generated outlines when using a built-in content type, applying to all H2, H3 and H4 headings.

Heading StyleExample
Title CaseHow To Write The Best Articles in 2025
Sentence CaseHow to write the best articles in 2025

The new setting is available in the Advanced settings tab

Note: This setting does not affect titles, we will expose a separate setting for titles at a later date

2025-05-25: Machined V3 beta​

Machined V3 is now available for everyone to use - it is now an opt-in open beta, so please enable it and try out the new features.

What's new?​

Here's a quick breakdown of the major new features available to you now.

FeatureWhat is it?
Custom Brand VoicesCreate a custom brand voice - mimic your existing content, customize a built-in voice or bring your own style guide
Custom Briefs and DirectionsTell the agent exactly what should be in the content - brand mentions, CTAs, tables, custom data
In-app Content EditorEdit your content before exporting or publishing - update content, add/remove links, edit tables and much more
Improved Deep ResearchRun automated research up front and curate the results before writing content - more control, fewer rewrites
Content TypesWrite listicles, reviews, comparisons, tutorials and more - you can still provide your own outline as well
New modelsBrand new writing agent using o1 and o4-mini reasoning models

The documentation is still in the kitchen, but you can read about the highlights below...

New Features​

Enable V3​

You can enable the new V3 engine in the experimental features section.

You can then select the new engine from the AI Engine dropdown when creating a new cluster.

Note: The V3 Engine is only available on new clusters
Custom Voices​

Machined allows you to choose from a number of built-in voices or create your own custom brand voice - giving you the ability to create hyper personalized content.

Custom Briefs and Directions​

Custom briefs allow you to give detailed directions to the writing agent.

This little box is one of the most powerful features in the new version, allowing you to give personal insights on the topic as well as the ability to fine-tune what the writing agent will do.

Some common examples:

"Mention our brand..."
​"Include 5 sections in the listicle"
​"Use bold to emphasize importance"
​"Add an FAQ with 5 questions at the end of the article"
​"Include a table in each section highlighting the steps and gotchas"

Research improvements​

You can now run automated and directed research up front, allowing you to read and curate the results before writing the article - more control, fewer rewrites!

Content Editor​

Machined now has a built-in editor, so you can edit the content before exporting or publishing. You can edit the text, apply formatting, add/remove links, edit tables and much more

New models​

We've added support for the new reasoning models from OpenAI, we currently make use of gpt-o1 and gpt-o4-mini

The average cost per article are:

  • $0.10 - $0.50 cents per article for gpt-o1
  • $0.01 - $0.05 cents per article for gpt-o4-mini

Note: We highly recommend you stick to gpt-o1 for now - while the cheaper model is available, we're still fine-tuning and optimizing it, you might see shorter text and lower density of links than you would expect. We will clarify when the model has been finalized, but if you do use it, please give feedback so we can improve it.

2025-04-01: Brand Voice beta​

We're expanding our Brand Voice beta to more users, read more below and let us know if you're interested in trying it out...

Brand Voice closed beta​

We're expanding the beta of our Brand Voice feature and inviting other users to try it out!

This feature allows you to train the AI on existing content and use more powerful models like GPT O1 and GPT 4.5 to write the content. The output quality is miles better and the cost isn't too bad either, we'll share more on that when this is ready for launch.

Anyway, if you're on a paid plan (Professional, Unlimited or Business) and have a unique brand voice you're trying to replicate, please reach out to the team :vulcan:

2025-03-24: Bulk Research, Language fixes and more​

We've added bulk settings to the Research feature, we've improved German lanugage output (formal vs informal) and improved our title prompts.

All the juicy details below...

Bulk Research settings​

A much requested feature allowing you to bulk apply Research settings to all articles in the cluster. This should save you a bunch of time if you usually pass the same settings to each article.

When changing Research settings for an article, there's now a handy little button that will apply all the same settings to all other unwritten articles in the cluster. Boom!

Be careful when using it, don't forget to update the settings on other articles if needed.

Language improvements :flag_de:​

We've been hard at work optimizing some languages.

The latest changes are for you Germans! There are two new languages in the list, that are tailored for formal or informal content. Please try them out and let us know if the improvement is helpful.

We've added:

  • German (Formal - Sie)
  • German (Informal - Du)

We're planning on doing the same for French, Spanish and Italian, which might be experiencing the same issues - let the team know if the effort is worthwhile 🙏

Title improvements​

We've optimized our title prompts again so the format that the built-in model uses is much more varied and human like. Let us know if it's an improvement and what other tweaks we can make...

2025-03-16: Stability AI images​

Stability AI​

We've introduced a Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large based image model. This model is miles better when compared to DALL-E 3, its way more predictable and creates much more realistic images (if that's your flavour).

You can even apply it as auto-generate on your clusters 🚀

While in beta, it doesn't require any api keys, which means we're funding it for the time being (gotta love our spending habits). Long term you'll need to provide your own Replicate api keys - which will allow us to bring many more image models to the platform.

Note: The Stability image model is free for all users while it is in beta - so give it a try and give us some feedback

2025-02-22: Improvements and bug fixes​

The last month has been a massive focus for the team on fixing bugs and adding optimizations

  • Prompt tweaks
    • Fixed multiple language issues :flag_fr: :flag_es: :flag_de:
    • Fixed inconsistencies between models
    • Improved link placement algos
  • Fair usage rate limit improvements
    • Rate limits relaxed by 12%
  • Platform performance improvements
    • Added extra parallelism to article writer
    • Better token usage prediction

2025-01-14: Reduced costs​

Clusters and Titles are on us​

In the beginning, Machined was a fully bring-your-own-key platform, which meant that your api keys would be used for everything including the construction of auto-pilot clusters as well as generating titles. Well that's changed now! From today, we will no longer be using your api key for these tasks, constructing clusters and generating titles will be an internal cost for the platform.

This will make the platform easier to use, and also reduce your OpenAI bill slightly...

Why we're doing this​

For many new users, adding an api key as a first step can be confusing and scary. We were thinking about ways to make it easier for new users to see the power of machined without the hurdle of adding keys. While we were experimenting, we saw that this was a benefit for everyone in the same way, so in evolving the platform, we've taken the step to improve the experience and reduce costs for everyone.

As always, we're focused on value-driven decisions for our users :saluting_face:

2024​

2024-12-26: Projects​

Projects​

We've added improvements in how you manage content!

Projects give you a nice way to manage your related content or campaigns.

Think of projects as folders for your content, making it easy for you to manage and organise related content and campaigns. You can create as many projects as you like, and clusters can be moved between projects very easily. If you feel like it you could even categorise your existing clusters into projects.

You can easily create projects when creating a new cluster or from the clusters view:

Projects bear no significance on the actual content, they are solely a way for you to manage and organise your clusters in the platform.

We hope it's useful, let us know what you think...

2024-12-10: Improvements and bug fixes​

The last couple of weeks have been all about listening to feedback and making improvements! The team has tackled a total of 15 improvements to both usability and the quality of the output:

  • 3 language tweaks :flag_de: :flag_fr: :flag_es:
  • 7 UX improvements 💄
  • 5 pesky bugs 🐛

2024-11-12: Custom Outlines GTM​

Custom Outlines out of experimental​

The Custom Outlines feature is out of beta and ready for everyone to use 🚀

That's it, check out the Custom Outlines docs

2024-10-06: Humanizer GTM​

Humanizer out of experimental​

The Machined Humanizer is out of beta and ready for everyone to use 🚀

That's it, check out the Humanizer docs

2024-09-23: Model updates​

Model updates​

As you may have noticed we've made some model updates.

For article writing:

  • We've deprecated GPT-4 and GPT-4 Turbo in favour of the new GPT-4o
  • We're keeping GPT-3.5 Turbo in place for the time-being but have updated the underlying variant to the cheaper gpt-3.5-0125

In the near future we also plan to change the models used for research, from the current gpt-3.5-0125 to the new gpt-4o-mini which will reduce the cost of research massively - stay tuned...

2024-09-10: Custom Outlines beta​

Custom Outlines​

We're released our Custom Outlines feature in experimental mode! Give it a shot and give us some feedback!

Custom Outlines are great when you want to control the structure and content of your articles more closely.

The Outline Editor is super easy to use, it supports markdown format and will extract the headings from any markdown you paste in (so you can throw an entire article in there and get the outline).

This feature is being released in Experimental Mode to all users, so please give it a try and report any issues to us on the in-app chat.

Check the documentation for more info

2024-08-25: UX Improvements​

UX Improvements​

We've been making a concerted effort to make minor experience and usability improvements on a consistent basis.

  • You can enable-all for Research and Humanizer by clicking on table headers
  • The full title shows when you hover on it
  • We've improved column spacing

2024-08-17: Humanizer improvements​

Humanizer improvements​

The Humanizer has received some love and attention!

We've migrated the model used for humanizing content from gpt-4o-2024-05-13 to gpt-4o-2024-08-06. We needed to overhaul and retrain our prompts but it was worth it as it makes it 42% cheaper

Whilst in there, we also made other improvements:

  • It more closely follows tone of voice
  • It changes heading less often
  • It uses slightly fewer tokens

2024-07-22: GPT-4o-mini​

GPT-4o mini and other model changes​

This new model release from OpenAI allows us to make the giant step towards high-quality articles that cost less that a cent, yes less than a cent!

You can start using this model to write your articles right now - so jump into machined and give it a go!

Please bear in mind that until we perfect the prompts for this model, we are considering it as experimental, so make sure you check the content very carefully - especially fact and link checking is a must...

2024-06-12: Humanizer beta​

Humanizer​

Humanize your "machined" output - what a weird world we live in.

That's right, we've just launched an experimental early version of our new humanization feature!

This new feature will make your articles sound more human to people by removing fluff, paraphrasing and replacing certain words/phrases commonly used by AI. The intention is to use more casual and realistic language and structure.

PS. This is not intended to fool AI detectors, and likely won't...

Notes​

This feature is experimental so you will need to have experimental features enabled - and there are some things to be aware of before you use it.

Please read the docs for all the info