# This Week in All Things AI - Week 5-2026

> Sunday 25th January 2026 to Saturday 31st January 2026

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**Published on:** 2026-02-01
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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 Readers who think others in their family, friends and acquaintances who are curious in knowing more about rapidly evolving AI tools/services/use cases and would benefit from being subscribers of this weekly newsletter are encouraged to share this publication link to them and invite them to subscribe The following messages were posted on the 'All Things AI' Telegram group from Sunday 25th Jan 2026 to Saturday 31st Jan 2026Sunday 25th January 20261Clawdbot 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. Alex Finn @AlexFinn This is it. The most important video you'll watch this year. ClawdBot has taken X by storm. And for good reason. It's the greatest application of AI ever Your own 24/7 AI employee In this video I cover how it works, how to set it up, and why I think we should all be nervous: 18.5K 5:58 AM • Jan 25, 2026 Damian Player @damianplayer x.com/i/article/2015… 10.4K 12:53 AM • Jan 25, 2026 Nozz @NoahEpstein_ x.com/i/article/2015… 9,394 10:46 PM • Jan 24, 2026 Tech Friend AJ @techfrenAJ Deployed @moltbot in under 5 minutes on AWS free tier. Open source personal AI. Full system access. Interfaces through WhatsApp, Discord, Telegram. People are rigging it to their Ray-Bans for real-time price comparisons. One command. That's it. 6,894 1:33 PM • Jan 24, 2026 Moltbot (Formerly Clawdbot) Showed Me What the Future of Personal AI Assistants Looks LikeUpdate, January 27, 2026: Clawdbot has been renamed to Moltbot following a trademark-related request by Anthropic. For the past week or so, I've been working with a digital assistant that knows my name, my preferences for my morning routine, how I like to use Notion and Todoist, but which also knows how to control Spotify...https://www.macstories.net2The 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 agentUnrolling the Codex agent loopA technical deep dive into the Codex agent loop, explaining how Codex CLI orchestrates models, tools, prompts, and performance using the Responses API.https://openai.com3via Robby Yung As a non-technical user, I found this overview of Clawdbot quite helpful Shruti @heyshrutimishra x.com/i/article/2015… 14K 3:34 PM • Jan 25, 2026 4via Robby Yung Burak Eregar @burakeregar most people will install clawd and accidentally hand it their entire life it’s incredible: a 24/7 ai agent on your server that controls your github, calendar, and email via whatsapp/telegram but stop and think for a second you just gave an ai autonomous execution rights on 4,542 9:03 PM • Jan 25, 2026 via Robby YungMonday 26th January 20261via Valerii Anufriev Great book on the topic of SuperIntelligent AI, from prominent AI researchersIf Anyone Builds It, Everyone DiesAI is the greatest threat to our existence that we have ever faced. The scramble to create superhuman AI has put us on the path to extinction - but it's not too late to change course.https://www.penguin.co.uk2Article by Karl Lorey on cutting LLM costs by 80% by benchmarking actual prompts across multiple modelsWithout Benchmarking LLMs, You're Likely Overpaying 5-10x | Karl LoreyWe benchmarked 100+ models on our actual task and found a much cheaper alternative that works just as well.https://karllorey.comTuesday 27th January 20261via Eno Reyes , CTO of FactoryAI, creator of the the Droid agentic coding tool —- 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. Eno Reyes @EnoReyes 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. 1,134 3:02 AM • Jan 27, 2026 Matan Grinberg @matanSF Droid has been autonomously self-improving for the last few weeks now. The results are early but very promising. Eno Reyes @EnoReyes 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. 142 5:13 AM • Jan 27, 2026 2Came 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 Hyper3D by Deemos @DeemosTech 3D Nano Banana just dropped! We just launched #Rodin Gen-2 "Edit", upload ANY model and edit like magic: Smart Low-poly → artist-style topology Local edits via prompt (Beta) BANG to Parts + more #Hyper3D is now the FIRST true #3D GenAI editing platform! 648 1:36 AM • Jan 24, 2026 3Also came across Feynman-3 from Opennote described as a thinking partner that researches, edits, and works alongside you.Opennote: The notebook that thinks with youThe notebook that thinks with you. Write notes, generate videos, flashcards, and problems, and collaborate.https://www.opennote.com Abhi @abhiarya Feynman-3 marks a first-principles rebuild of Opennote. We've reworked the editor and collaboration to embed our knowledge layer, redesigned editing for agent-driven developer experience, and overhauled the infrastructure for speed and stability. Give it a shot today! Opennote @opennote Introducing Feynman-3. A thinking partner that researches, edits, and works alongside you. 11 4:51 AM • Jan 27, 2026 Vedant Vyas @vedantvyas We just shipped a major upgrade to how @opennote actually works under the hood. Feynman‑3 is now running inside your journals with three things I’m most excited about: 1. Background intelligence: Start writing and Feynman‑3 quietly builds structure, summaries, and research in 10 2:30 AM • Jan 27, 2026 4zocomputer: clawdbot for those who willing to spend some money on subscription and don't want to muck aroundZo Computer - AI Cloud OSZo is a personal cloud server with AI built-in. Do research, generate images, analyze data, vibe code sites, text or email your AI; connect your Gmail, Drive, Calendar and more; create scheduled AI automations; built-in web hosting for sites, APIs, or self-hosted services (like Plex or n8n); integrated payments, and much more.https://www.zo.computerhttps://x.com/zocomputer5via Charis Campbell Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete The amount of crap I get for putting out a hobby project for free is quite something. People treat this like a multi-million dollar business. Security researchers demanding a bounty. Heck, I can barely buy a Mac Mini from the Sponsors. It's supposed to inspire people. And I'm 20.7K 9:07 AM • Jan 27, 2026 6Moonshot 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. Kimi.ai @Kimi_Moonshot Meet Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual Agentic Intelligence. Global SOTA on Agentic Benchmarks: HLE full set (50.2%), BrowseComp (74.9%) Open-source SOTA on Vision and Coding: MMMU Pro (78.5%), VideoMMMU (86.6%), SWE-bench Verified (76.8%) Code with Taste: turn chats, 15.5K 1:42 PM • Jan 27, 2026 Kimi.ai @Kimi_Moonshot Kimi K2.5 has arrived! Here are 2 things to know: Aesthetic Coding x Agent Swarm. 6,127 1:33 PM • Jan 27, 2026 Kimi.ai @Kimi_Moonshot Here's a short video from our founder, Zhilin Yang. (It's his first time speaking on camera like this, and he really wanted to share Kimi K2.5 with you!) 9,565 4:26 PM • Jan 27, 2026 Kimi K2.5: Visual Agentic Intelligence | Technical ReportKimi K2.5 defines Visual Agentic Intelligence. Trained on 15T tokens, it introduces SOTA visual coding and autonomous agent swarm. Read the full tech report.https://www.kimi.com Wednesday 28th January 20261OpenAI 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. OpenAI @OpenAI Introducing Prism, a free workspace for scientists to write and collaborate on research, powered by GPT-5.2. Available today to anyone with a ChatGPT personal account: prism.openai.com 16.2K 1:59 AM • Jan 28, 2026 Kevin Weil 🇺🇸 @kevinweil Today we’re introducing Prism—a free, AI-native workspace for scientists to write and collaborate on research, powered by GPT-5.2. Accelerating science requires progress on two fronts: 1. Frontier AI models that use scientific tools and can tackle the hardest problems 2. 2,032 2:03 AM • Jan 28, 2026 2Vercel'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. Guillermo Rauch @rauchg We're now seeing 550+ skills added every hour to skills.sh. Pretty wild. We've added more CLI tools and options on the website for improved search and discoverability. Run 𝚗𝚙𝚡 𝚜𝚔𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚜@𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚜𝚝 to start: Vercel Developers @vercel_dev npx skills@1.1.1 has new human and agent-friendly discovery features, and is now open source. • 𝚗𝚙𝚡 𝚜𝚔𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚜 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚍 • 𝚗𝚙𝚡 𝚜𝚔𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚜 𝚞𝚙𝚍𝚊𝚝𝚎 • Let agents explore with 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚍-𝚜𝚔𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚜 • Replaces 𝚗𝚙𝚡 𝚊𝚍𝚍-𝚜𝚔𝚒𝚕𝚕 vercel.com/changelog/skil… 1,431 4:18 AM • Jan 27, 2026 Vercel Developers @vercel_dev npx skills@1.1.1 has new human and agent-friendly discovery features, and is now open source. • 𝚗𝚙𝚡 𝚜𝚔𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚜 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚍 • 𝚗𝚙𝚡 𝚜𝚔𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚜 𝚞𝚙𝚍𝚊𝚝𝚎 • Let agents explore with 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚍-𝚜𝚔𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚜 • Replaces 𝚗𝚙𝚡 𝚊𝚍𝚍-𝚜𝚔𝚒𝚕𝚕 vercel.com Skills v1.1.1: Interactive discovery, open source release, and agent support - Vercel Skills v1.1.1 introduces interactive skill discovery with npx skills find, full open source release on GitHub, and enhanced support for 27 coding agents with automated workflows. 1,079 3:34 AM • Jan 27, 2026 Jiachi @huozhi Introducing next-skills, a skill set for Next.js App Router best practices, version upgrades, and performance features like cache components. How to install ↓ npx skills add vercel-labs/next-skills 1,170 4:14 AM • Jan 27, 2026 Illia (root.near) (🇺🇦, ⋈) @ilblackdragon Skills is how we distribute software now npx openskills install near/agent-skills -g Time to build x10 211 7:07 AM • Jan 27, 2026 3Team 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/20162330780462330304Looks 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 Nick @nickbaumann_ very excited to be joining the incredible Codex team @OpenAI looking forward to pushing the boundaries on agentic coding, and therefore, leading the chase to AGI TBPN @tbpn Clawdbot creator @steipete says Claude Opus is his favorite model, but OpenAI Codex is the best for coding: "OpenAI is very reliable. For coding, I prefer Codex because it can navigate large codebases. You can prompt and have 95% certainty that it actually works. With Claude 268 11:50 AM • Jan 28, 2026 Han @HanchungLee congratulations to the half of cline who are now working on oai codex. 27 1:30 PM • Jan 28, 2026 zöda @zodattack So all the cline engs I had just moved to open ai codex huh 8 10:18 AM • Jan 28, 2026 jason liu @jxnlco Did the cline team just join codex OpenAI 226 1:42 PM • Jan 28, 2026 Thursday 29th January 20261Seems 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 Matan Grinberg @matanSF It's pretty incredible to see how the largest eng teams in the world are taking no pauses in adopting agent native development and staying at the frontier. Technology services is an industry that will be completely transformed over the next 24 months Factory @FactoryAI 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. “Our partnership with Factory reflects a broader shift among global enterprises, from 56 1:14 AM • Jan 29, 2026 Wipro and Factory Partner to Accelerate Agent-Native Software Development For Enterprises Globally | Factory.aiWipro Limited, (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO), a leading AI-powered technology services and consulting company, a...https://factory.aiWelcome to Factory - Factory DocumentationFactory is an AI-native software development platform that works everywhere you do. From IDE to CI/CD - delegate complete tasks like refactors, incident response, and migrations to Droids without changing your tools, models, or workflow. Model-agnostic: use OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, X AI, open-source or local models.https://docs.factory.ai2xAI'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. xAI @xai Understanding requires imagining. Grok Imagine lets you bring what’s in your brain to life, and now it’s available via the world’s fastest, and most powerful video API: x.ai/news/grok-imag… Try it out and let your Imagination run wild. 3,793 1:30 PM • Jan 29, 2026 Artificial Analysis @ArtificialAnlys 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 1,142 1:46 PM • Jan 29, 2026 fal @fal fal is proud to partner with @xai as Grok Imagine’s day-0 platform partner xAI's latest image & video gen + editing model Stunning photorealistic images/videos from text Lightning-fast generation Dynamic animations with precise control Edit elements, styles & more 2,233 1:33 PM • Jan 29, 2026 ComfyUI @ComfyUI Grok Imagine from @xai is now available in ComfyUI. Some models are just more emotional than others. 267 1:40 PM • Jan 29, 2026 Friday 30th January 20261via Robby Yung, Amiko an AI-native social networkAmikoNet: AI-Native Social PlatformMVP Blueprint for AmikoNethttps://amikonet.ai2via Robby Yung And the relatedmoltbook - the front page of the agent internetA social network built exclusively for moltys. Where moltys share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe.https://www.moltbook.comSaturday 31st January 20261via 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-c4232c6ea6d52via Dima Khucin Good coverageMoltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right nowThe hottest project in AI right now is Clawdbot, renamed to Moltbot, renamed to OpenClaw. It's an open source implementation of the digital personal assistant pattern, built by Peter Steinberger ...https://simonwillison.net3Claude 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. Customize Cowork with plugins | ClaudeWith Cowork, you set the goal and Claude delivers finished, professional work. Plugins let you go further: tell Claude how you like work done, which tools and data to pull from, how to handle critical workflows, and what slash commands to expose so your team gets even better and more consistent outcomes.https://claude.comPlugins for Cowork | Claude by AnthropicDiscover plugins designed for Cowork. Browse community-built tools that help Claude handle knowledge work like file organization and report drafting.https://claude.com4via Robby Yung Interesting take on Moltbolts aka OpenClaw5Q&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 Patrick OShaughnessy @patrick_oshag .@gokulr is one of the most prolific product builders and investors of the last 20 years. He helped build the core ads and product businesses at Google, Facebook, Square, and DoorDash, working directly with many of this generation's best founders and CEOs. He's also invested in 927 12:25 AM • Jan 30, 2026 Gokul Rajaram @gokulr Really enjoyed my conversation with @patrick_oshag on @InvestLikeBest I've been a long-time admirer of Patrick, and our conversation covered a wide range of topics, including: -- How AI has transformed product development -- Durability in the age of AI -- Which companies 104 11:31 PM • Jan 29, 2026 Below is my personal website which aggregates links to many of my socials as well as the various content and community that I curate. Feel free to share this link to others who you think may find this content/community useful to them https://linktr.ee/goolamabbas The cover image of this newsletter via generated via the Google Nano Banana Pro model within the Freepik tool via the following promptlong range view, Beautiful Japanese flower garden, waterfalls, pink and white, by Akihito Yoshida, Ismail Inceoglu, Karol Bak, Airbrush, Dramatic, Panorama, Cool Color Palette, Megapixel, Lumen Reflections, insanely detailed and intricate, hypermaximalist, elegant, ornate, hyper realistic, super detailed, unreal engine

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