Manus, a new AI agent from China, is creating excitement similar to DeepSeek by showcasing advanced autonomous capabilities. It went viral overnight, offering functionalities such as website building, financial analysis, and business assistance. Although it uses existing models like Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Manus impresses users through exceptional user experience and task integration, marking a pivotal shift towards highly effective multipurpose AI agents. Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to ...
Mar 11, 2025•19 min•Transcript available on Metacast A reading and discussion inspired by https://thomwolf.io/blog/scientific-ai.html Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to www.kpmg.us/ai to learn more about how KPMG can help you drive value with our AI solutions. Vanta - Simplify compliance - https://vanta.com/nlw The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you un...
Mar 09, 2025•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast AI powered apps are growing fast, with ChatGPT, DeepSeek, and coding assistants leading. Reports from SimilarWeb, SensorTower, and A16Z show that AI tools for coding, data analysis, and content creation are getting the most traction. Apps like Cursor, Bolt, and Lovable make building software easier for coders and non-coders. DeepSeek’s chatbot has quickly become a major player, forcing competitors to rethink pricing. Before that in the Headlines, Google cofounder has a new AI startup. Brought to...
Mar 08, 2025•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast A leaked investor deck suggests OpenAI plans to charge up to $20,000 monthly for its most advanced AI agents. Lower-tier agents focused on knowledge work and software development would cost between $2,000 and $10,000. The AI community is debating whether these prices make sense, how they compare to human labor costs, and whether competition will push them down. Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to www.kpmg.us/ai to learn more abo...
Mar 07, 2025•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast A recent New York Times interview arguing that the US Gov't knows AGI is coming (and coming soon) is generating a lot of chatter about what the response should be. Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to www.kpmg.us/ai to learn more about how KPMG can help you drive value with our AI solutions. Vanta - Simplify compliance - https://vanta.com/nlw The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to ...
Mar 06, 2025•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast A new AI voice model, Sesame, is turning heads with its natural conversations, leaving many wondering if this is a turning point for AI assistants. Companies are racing to build AI-powered voice tools for customer service, sales, education, and more. Is this the future of computing, or will people resist talking to machines? Plus Anthropic raises $3.5B. Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to www.kpmg.us/ai to learn more about how K...
Mar 05, 2025•19 min•Transcript available on Metacast China is restricting AI leaders from traveling to the U.S., signaling a new level of national security focus. Meanwhile, Beijing is ramping up investment, with Alibaba committing $53 billion to AI infrastructure and DeepSeek claiming massive profit margins. On the U.S. side, policymakers debate whether export controls are working, and former officials push for open-source AI to counter China's growing influence. The AI arms race is accelerating. Tune in for the latest. Brought to you by: KPM...
Mar 04, 2025•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast In today's alt-long-reads episode, NLW explores the future of agentic work. He argues agents won't be a 1-to-1 replacement for today's labor, but will totally transform how we think about how jobs get done. Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to www.kpmg.us/ai to learn more about how KPMG can help you drive value with our AI solutions. Vanta - Simplify compliance - https://vanta.com/nlw The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintell...
Mar 02, 2025•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast OpenAI has officially launched GPT-4.5, but it’s not the model most people expected. While it lags behind reasoning focused models like O1 and DeepSeek, it shines in creativity, writing, and emotional intelligence. Sam Altman calls it the first model that “feels like talking to a thoughtful person.” But with high API costs and limited reasoning improvements, who is GPT-4.5 actually for? Before that in the headlines, AI is growing faster than SaaS ever did. Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to ...
Mar 01, 2025•20 min•Transcript available on Metacast Despite reports of Microsoft canceling data center leases, AI compute demand is still accelerating. This episode breaks down Wall Street’s ongoing AI skepticism and the reasons why companies like Meta, OpenAI, and Apple are making massive infrastructure bets. Plus, key takeaways from Nvidia’s latest earnings and what reasoning models mean for the future of computing. Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to www.kpmg.us/ai to learn more about...
Feb 28, 2025•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast To many, it feels like a moment of significant acceleration. We're getting a new model every few days, major advances in agents, and generally there's a sense of things getting faster. And yet, not everything is moving in lock-step. NLW breaks down what in AI is moving faster than expected, vs what's moving slower. Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to www.kpmg.us/ai to learn more about how KPMG can help you drive value with our...
Feb 27, 2025•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast Claude 3.7 Sonnet has launched to much fanfare. Along with it comes Claude Code, reinforcing just how much Anthropic has found Claude's core use case in coding. NLW shares the first reactions. Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to www.kpmg.us/ai to learn more about how KPMG can help you drive value with our AI solutions. Vanta - Simplify compliance - https://vanta.com/nlw The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to http...
Feb 26, 2025•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast A discussion originally from the Tool Use podcast. See full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fDu52FzmJc // https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/will-ai-agents-be-your-automation-breakthrough-ft-nlw/id1773693853?i=1000693646455 Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to www.kpmg.us/ai to learn more about how KPMG can help you drive value with our AI solutions. Vanta - Simplify compliance - https://vanta.com/nlw The Agent Readiness Au...
Feb 24, 2025•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast NLW reads two pieces that both discuss how agentic AI changes AI's place in the geopolitical discourse. One of the pieces argues strenuously that America should be viewing AI and agents as a tool for softpower, and NLW expands the economic argument. Sources: https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/5149319-us-soft-power-ai-foreign-aid/ https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3299013/rise-autonomous-agentic-ai-raises-geopolitical-stakes Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to ...
Feb 23, 2025•17 min•Transcript available on Metacast Google’s AI Co-Scientist is changing how research gets done, using a system of multiple agents working together to generate and refine scientific ideas. This approach has already led to drug repurposing, treatment discovery, and antimicrobial resistance research breakthroughs. But beyond science, this model hints at a more significant shift in multi-agent AI systems tackling real problems. Are we about to see a wave of AI teams replacing single models? Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to ...
Feb 22, 2025•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast At least...not in the same way others think of it. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella just sat down for a rare in-depth interview, sharing his thoughts on AGI, Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI, and the risks of overbuilding AI infrastructure. He argues that AGI should be measured by real economic growth, not benchmarks, and warns that businesses may be overinvesting in AI data centers. Is Microsoft pulling back while others go all in? Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to www.kpm...
Feb 21, 2025•20 min•Transcript available on Metacast AI coding tools are advancing rapidly, but how effective are they for freelance jobs? OpenAI's new SWE Lancer benchmark evaluated top AI models on 1,400 software engineering tasks from Upwork. The outcome? Claude 3.5 Sonnet surpassed OpenAI’s models, completing more tasks and earning the highest simulated payout. Additionally, "vibe coding" is transforming software development into a more interactive, less technical process. Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to ...
Feb 20, 2025•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast XAI’s Grok-3 has arrived, but does it meet expectations? Elon Musk’s AI venture asserts that its newest model competes with GPT-4 and DeepSeek, introducing features such as Big Brain Mode and Deep Search. While benchmarks indicate encouraging performance, is this truly revolutionary or merely incremental? Additionally, OpenAI has turned down Musk’s $97 billion acquisition offer, while XAI looks to raise $10 billion in fresh capital. Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to www.kpm...
Feb 18, 2025•17 min•Transcript available on Metacast With China’s DeepSeek making waves in AI, pressure is mounting for the U.S. to rethink its stance on open-source models. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt argues that America's edge in AI may depend on supporting open development. Meanwhile, Sam Altman suggests OpenAI may need a new approach. Is the era of closed AI coming to an end? Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to www.kpmg.us/ai to learn more about how KPMG can help you drive value with our AI solu...
Feb 17, 2025•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast AI is reshaping work, but which jobs are most affected? Anthropic’s new Economic Index tracks how AI is used across industries, which professions are adopting it fastest, and where automation is already replacing tasks. Software engineers are leading AI adoption, but some fields remain untouched. Are fears of AI replacing jobs overblown, or is it happening faster than expected? Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to www.kpmg.us/ai to learn more about how KPMG...
Feb 15, 2025•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast OpenAI has laid out its roadmap for GPT-5, confirming the release of GPT-4.5 (Orion) as the final model before a shift to reasoning-based AI. Sam Altman detailed how OpenAI is consolidating models, moving away from fragmented options, and focusing on a unified AI experience. This episode breaks down the strategy, why reasoning models are taking center stage, and what this means for the future of AI. Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to www.kpmg.us/ai to learn...
Feb 14, 2025•17 min•Transcript available on Metacast At the AI Action Summit in Paris, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance made it clear: the U.S. is doubling down on AI acceleration, prioritizing development over regulation. His speech pushed back against European AI policies, advocating for a more aggressive approach to AI innovation. Meanwhile, the EU is scrambling to adapt, with leaders acknowledging that their regulation-heavy stance has hindered progress. Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to www.kpmg.us/ai to le...
Feb 13, 2025•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Elon Musk and a group of investors have reportedly offered $97.4 billion to buy OpenAI’s nonprofit. But is this a real bid or a legal maneuver to slow Sam Altman’s ambitions? This episode breaks down the offer, the potential implications for OpenAI’s valuation, and why some believe Musk is using this move to challenge OpenAI’s transition to a for-profit company. Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to www.kpmg.us/ai to learn more about how KPMG can help you drive va...
Feb 12, 2025•17 min•Transcript available on Metacast OpenAI CEO Sam Altman just dropped a new blog post outlining his vision for AGI, AI economics, and the next decade. His key prediction? By 2035, any individual will have access to as much intelligence as the world today. Is this realistic, or just more hype? This episode breaks down his arguments, the implications for work, AI scaling, and whether policymakers have plans for what’s coming. Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to www.kpmg.us/ai to learn more about how ...
Feb 11, 2025•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Deepseek continues to have the whole world talking and debating. In this long reads episode, NLW discusses the it in the context of two articles about the geopolitics of the issue. Reading and discussion inspired by: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/opinion/ai-deepseek-trump-biden.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-china-shares-ai-us-123000929.html Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to www.kpmg.us/ai to learn more about how KPMG can help you drive value with ou...
Feb 09, 2025•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Google has released Gemini 2.0 Pro, and the inevitable comparisons to DeepSeek and OpenAI's latest models have begun. The key takeaway? While Gemini 2.0 Pro is strong in coding and supports a massive 2-million-token context window, it lags behind dedicated reasoning models like O3 Mini. Some see this as proof that pre-training has hit its limits, while others argue that the model is still highly competitive. Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to www.kpmg.us/ai to le...
Feb 08, 2025•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast A special episodes produced with OpenAI Deep Research and Google NotebookLM due to a lost voice! Read the Deep Research paper: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zrGe2bpzifMPi5AlPGT0xmRhUzHgl5k1bYtf_guNJSY/edit?usp=sharing Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to www.kpmg.us/ai to learn more about how KPMG can help you drive value with our AI solutions. Vanta - Simplify compliance - https://vanta.com/nlw The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https:/...
Feb 07, 2025•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast Replit’s new AI agent can turn a simple prompt into a working app straight from your phone. Is this the end of traditional software development, or are we entering a new phase where anyone can build? This episode examines AI powered coding, how low code tools change software creation, and what happens when intelligence becomes widely accessible. Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to www.kpmg.us/ai to learn more about how KPMG can help you drive value with our AI solutions. ...
Feb 06, 2025•17 min•Transcript available on Metacast Y Combinator has just released its latest Request for Startups, which covers nearly every theme related to AI and agents. From infrastructure to vertical applications, YC’s vision for the upcoming wave of startups provides insight into what they believe will shape the industry. This episode analyzes their predictions, the largest opportunities, and why managing AI agents rather than replacing jobs might be the true future of work. Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to www.kpmg.us/ai...
Feb 05, 2025•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast OpenAI’s new Deep Research agent claims it can take on a measurable percentage of all economically valuable work. Is this a real breakthrough or just ambitious marketing? This episode explores the latest reasoning model from OpenAI, Sam Altman’s comments on open source, and early user reactions. What could this mean for research, automation, and AI adoption? Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to www.kpmg.us/ai to learn more about how KPMG can help you drive value with our AI so...
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