China's New AI Agent & Model Shock the World (OpenAI in Trouble?)
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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 Ahttps://x.com/thinking_panda/status/1897951585990590469.https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1898093008601395380.https://x.com/_philschmid/status/1899046957860979178..
14:27 OpenAI Agent SDKhttps://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 Ahttps://x.com/minchoi/status/1898469519565492490.https://x.com/Ror_Fly/status/1899473065328656485.https://x.com/ror_fly/status/1899803648781119765..
25:55 Alibaba drops QWEN 32https://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 videhttps://x.com/EHuanglu/status/1897628929768505611..
32:31 The model competition is really heating up & Microsoft x OpenAhttps://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 weekhttps://x.com/mleejr/status/1898465691096727866.https://x.com/bankrbotohttps://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 dayshttps://x.com/defi0xjeff/status/1898025840514101654.https://x.com/gkisokay/status/1899422660339393007.https://x.com/696_eth/status/1897446933406605599..
56:58 Model Context Protocohttps://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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