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/1898884871742758966
https://x.com/grok/status/1898957064006774855
https://x.com/TrustlessState/status/1899565420966801647
https://dexscreener.com/base/0x5116773e18a9c7bb03ebb961b38678e45e238923
https://x.com/MLeeJr/status/1899647338978889743
https://x.com/grok/status/1899582316747391127
https://x.com/TrustlessState/status/1899585667899822520
https://x.com/bankrbot/status/1899589807350972768
https://x.com/grok/status/1898884871742758966
https://x.com/TrustlessState/status/1899566730059653431
https://x.com/rhynotic/status/1899190256727122331
56:26 Agents over the last 30 days
https://x.com/defi0xjeff/status/1898025840514101654
https://x.com/gkisokay/status/1899422660339393007
https://x.com/696_eth/status/1897446933406605599
56:58 Model Context Protocol
https://x.com/mattpocockuk/status/1897742389592440970
https://x.com/sendaifun/status/1892310991737598229
https://x.com/crossmint/status/1899492589763469802
1:05:30 Closing & Disclaimers
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