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This Week in All Things AI - Week 5-2026

Sunday 25th January 2026 to Saturday 31st January 2026

OpenClaw formerly known as Moltbot formerly known as Clawdbot was and remains the buzz on all social media channels. How long it stays on top of the attention game remains to be same. Encourage readers to read about it but strongly recommend not letting your guard down with respect to thinking in terms of security and not giving out your personal credentials

The relase of Kimi 2.5 from Moonshot AI was also received quite well with it also being made available to Perplexity Pro and Max users

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The following messages were posted on the 'All Things AI' Telegram group from Sunday 25th Jan 2026 to Saturday 31st Jan 2026


Sunday 25th January 2026

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Clawdbot Open-Source AI Agent Handles Real Tasks in Chat Apps

Created by Peter Steinberger, Clawdbot runs locally on everyday devices, remembers conversations, and integrates with tools like GitHub, Gmail, and browsers for proactive help in WhatsApp, Telegram, or Slack. Launched in late November 2025, its GitHub repo hit over 9,000 stars quickly, with users snapping up Mac Minis—though it works fine on Raspberry Pis or old laptops. Setup is simple via a CLI wizard, but docs stress safety measures like Docker sandboxes due to its system access.

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The below article is an extremely detailed write up on how Codex coding agent from OpenAI works internally.  It explains how the Codex CLI’s agent loop orchestrates interactions between the user, the model, and tools to reliably perform software work on your local machine, and how it manages performance and context over long conversations.   IMHO,  quite useful if you are writing your own agent

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via Robby Yung

As a non-technical user, I found this overview of Clawdbot quite helpful

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via Robby Yung

via Robby Yung

Monday 26th January 2026

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via Valerii Anufriev
Great book on the topic of SuperIntelligent AI, from prominent AI researchers

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Article by Karl Lorey on cutting LLM costs by 80% by benchmarking actual prompts across multiple models

Tuesday 27th January 2026

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via Eno Reyes , CTO of FactoryAI,  creator of the the Droid agentic coding tool

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Today we're sharing Signals: our closed-loop system for recursive self-improvement in software development agents.

Droid learns from interactions with hundreds of thousands of users - detecting improvement opportunities and autonomously implementing them in it’s own codebase.

2

Came across Rodin from Hyper3d which seems to be a slick image/text to 3d genai tool.   Their social media game is still raw and clumsy though

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Also came across Feynman-3 from Opennote described as a thinking partner that researches, edits, and works alongside you.

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zocomputer:  clawdbot for those who willing to spend some money on subscription and don't want to muck around

https://x.com/zocomputer

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via Charis Campbell

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Moonshot AI Launches Kimi K2.5 Open-Source Model Topping Benchmarks

The Beijing-based company behind the Kimi chatbot released K2.5  building on its trillion-parameter MoE architecture with support for text, images, and videos after training on 15 trillion tokens. It scores high on benchmarks like 50.2% on Humanity's Last Exam, 78.5% on MMMU-Pro multimodal reasoning, and 76.8% on SWE-bench coding, positioning ahead of models like Claude 4.5 Opus in self-reported charts. Standout features include aesthetic coding for polished UIs and Agent Swarm beta, which runs up to 100 sub-agents for complex workflows. 

Now live on kimi.com with affordable API pricing, its weights are freely available on Hugging Face.

Wednesday 28th January 2026

1

OpenAI Launches Free Prism Workspace for AI-Assisted Research Papers

Prism is a free, cloud-based LaTeX environment available now to anyone with a ChatGPT account. It lets users chat with GPT-5.2 for ideas, generate math from sketches, search arXiv, sync Zotero libraries, and collaborate in real-time without installations. 

Built on OpenAI's Crixet acquisition, it aims to speed up science by embedding advanced AI into familiar tools. Early users praise its ease with symbols and diagrams, though some question data privacy tied to ChatGPT settings.

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Vercel's AI Skills Directory Hits 27,000 Listings in Days

Vercel's open-source skills ecosystem, like an npm registry for AI agents, reached 27,217 skills on skills.sh just days after its v1.1.1 update, with over 550 added hourly. CEO Guillermo Rauch highlighted top installs like vercel-react-best-practices at 52,000, while new CLI commands like npx skills find make discovery easy for agents from Cursor to Claude Code. Developers like Jiachi from Vercel and Illia from NEAR contributed specialized packs for Next.js and blockchain, though some note supply-chain risks amid the rapid growth.

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Team France on 🔥today 'for sure' (props to President Macron for popularizing the phrase in Davos)

Paris startup Twin Labs which raised 10 million  Launches No-Code AI Agents for Businesses

https://x.com/i/trending/2016253362723750392

Mistral AI Launches Vibe 2.0 Terminal Coding Agent

https://x.com/i/trending/2016233078046233030

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Looks like there is a disturbance in the force aka 'world of Cline' with Team Codex staffing up from a big Cline poaching raid. 

OpenAI Codex also getting a good shoutout from Peter Steinberger of moltbot aka clawdbot on the TPBN show

ttps://x.com/trekedge/status/2016327238959169635

Thursday 29th January 2026

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Seems like a lot of engineers in India are going to be users of  Factory's Droid agentic coding tool

IMHO,  Droid has one of the best if not the best context management. very good compatability with Claude Code and supports skills, sub-agents, hooks, mcp and unlike Claude supports multiple models including the coding plans from various Chinese models such as Minimax, Zhipu which IMHO are very good value for money. Try it out if you haven't already

Factory is partnering with Wipro, one of the worlds largest IT consulting firms, to deploy Droids across hundreds of thousands of engineers internally and across their global client ecosystem

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xAI's Grok Imagine takes the #1 spot in both Text to Video and Image to Video in the Artificial Analysis Video Arena, surpassing Runway Gen-4.5, Kling 2.5 Turbo, and Veo 3.1!

Grok Imagine is the latest video model from  xAI , and joins an increasing roster of models such as Google's Veo and OpenAI's Sora supporting native audio generation alongside video output.

Friday 30th January 2026

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via Robby Yung, Amiko an AI-native social network

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via Robby Yung

And the related

Saturday 31st January 2026

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via Prashish Rajbhandari in response to Robby Yung posting of MoltBook
thanks for sharing.. quite fascinating! this post was mind boggling

https://www.moltbook.com/post/528559e2-1471-46d7-9d1a-c4232c6ea6d5

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via Dima Khucin

Good coverage

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Claude Cowork now supports plugins. 

Cowork, Anthropic's agentic AI app for real office tasks, now supports plugins that bundle custom instructions, skills, connectors, and sub-agents into reusable packages. Users on paid plans can download 11 open-sourced plugins for areas like sales, finance, legal reviews, marketing, and data analysis right from claude.com or GitHub. These turn Claude into a specialist coworker, with features saving locally for now and organization-wide sharing coming soon.

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via Robby Yung

Interesting take on Moltbolts aka OpenClaw

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Q&A between Patrick OShaughnessy with Gokul Rajaram, investor and a former product leader at Google, Meta, and others, on AI changing product development, building ad businesses, and more

It's 75 minutes.  IMHO an excellent episode

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