Episode Details

In this episode, we break down China's latest AI breakthrough—the Manus agent—and how it's shaking up the AI race. We discuss Alibaba's powerful, compact new AI model, the rise of autonomous coding agents, and Microsoft's shifting relationship with OpenAI. Plus, we explore how AI agents like Grok are starting to impact crypto markets.

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TIMESTAMPS & RESOURCES

0:00 Intro

1:33 China drops Manus AI

https://x.com/thinking_panda/status/1897951585990590469

https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1898093008601395380

https://x.com/_philschmid/status/1899046957860979178

14:27 OpenAI Agent SDK 

https://x.com/cryptopunk7213/status/1897406075072377093 

https://x.com/AtomSilverman/status/1899511053601698073 

21:05 Ex-Deepmind engineers creating autonomous coding agents 

https://x.com/mishalaskin/status/1898048925157728601

https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/1899444649317527927

22:57 Build a game from scratch with AI

https://x.com/minchoi/status/1898469519565492490

https://x.com/Ror_Fly/status/1899473065328656485

https://x.com/ror_fly/status/1899803648781119765

25:55 Alibaba drops QWEN 32B

https://x.com/hosseeb/status/1897377619240468513

https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/1899779090472644881

https://x.com/hyperbolic_labs/status/1897437370552570047

30:44 Chinese company HunYuan released a new image to video

https://x.com/EHuanglu/status/1897628929768505611

32:31 The model competition is really heating up & Microsoft x OpenAI

https://x.com/cneuralnetwork/status/1898450452540465538

https://gizmodo.com/microsofts-relationship-with-openai-is-not-looking-good-2000573293

36:57 Grok earned over $100K this past week 

https://x.com/mleejr/status/1898465691096727866

https://x.com/bankrbot

https://x.com/bankrbot/status/1897950192613441617

https://x.com/grok/status/189888