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Supercharge Claude Code with better Excel understanding 📊 Coding agents are general enough to do any type of knowledge work, including reading/creating docs. There are some pre-built skills for Claude Code to read Excel sheets, but they kind of suck 🚫 – it requires the agent https://x.com/jerryjliu0/status/2005709989558775919
Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq for about $20 billion, biggest deal https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/24/nvidia-buying-ai-chip-startup-groq-for-about-20-billion-biggest-deal.html
We’re hiring for the safety team at xAI We work on RL post-training, alignment/model behavior, and reducing catastrophic risk This work is incredibly high impact If you have strong ML skills and this sounds exciting to you, DM me https://x.com/StewartSlocum1/status/2005710683623809440
I’m hearing from many folks across finance industry that Claude for Excel is blowing their minds. The agentic coding takeoff but for other fields is coming in 2026.”” / X https://x.com/alexalbert__/status/2005670179045523595
Introducing Manus: the first general AI agent. Try Manus today and see the future of human-machine collaboration: https://x.com/ManusAI/status/1897294098945728752
Meta just bought the fastest-growing AI agent company in history for what’s probably $1-2B. The math tells you exactly why Zuckerberg did this deal today. Manus hit $100M ARR in eight months. That’s faster than ChatGPT, faster than Midjourney, faster than any AI product ever.”” / X https://x.com/aakashgupta/status/2005815184976417117
Manus Joins Meta: Accelerating AI Innovation for Businesses | Meta for Business https://www.facebook.com/business/news/manus-joins-meta-accelerating-ai-innovation-for-businesses
Meta just acquired Manus AI. Ramp Sheets modeled it out: Estimated price: $4-6B based on AI M&A comps Fastest to $100M ARR in history (8 months) Benchmark likely 8-12x’d in under a year https://x.com/RampLabs/status/2005807066351325470
Also, MSL is hiring in Singapore! We already have some amazing researchers and engineers there, buoyed now by the 100-strong Manus team, and we’re growing fast. Feel free to DM with a resumé if interested!”” / X https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/2005766471516053736
Fun fact: Manus is currently SOTA on the Remote Labor Index (RLI) benchmark that @scale_AI and @ai_risks released earlier this year. https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/2005766785237410107
Introducing Manus Design View https://manus.im/blog/manus-design-view
Manus Update: $100M ARR, $125M revenue run-rate https://manus.im/blog/manus-100m-arr
Meta just bought Manus for >$1B and it makes sense. ~8 Consumer AI apps hit $100M+ arr that aren’t big labs: Perplexity: $20B ElevenLabs: $6.6B Lovable: $6.6B Replit: $3B+ Suno: $2.5B Gamma: $2.1B Character: $1B+ Manus: $500M Meta AI has ~no product. This was the cheapest, and https://x.com/deedydas/status/2005798365733478490
Read the Full Memo Alexandr Wang Sent About Meta’s Massive AI Reorg – Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-superintelligence-labs-reorg-alexandr-wang-memo-2025-8
Groq and Nvidia Enter Non-Exclusive Inference Technology Licensing Agreement to Accelerate AI Inference at Global Scale | Groq is fast, low cost inference. https://groq.com/newsroom/groq-and-nvidia-enter-non-exclusive-inference-technology-licensing-agreement-to-accelerate-ai-inference-at-global-scale
SoftBank races to fulfill $22.5 billion funding commitment to OpenAI by year-end https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-softbank-races-fulfill-22-233202534.html
Softbank fulfills $40 billion OpenAI backing, sources tell CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/30/softbank-openai-investment.html?taid=6953e10b1534bb0001d46587
Documents: OpenAI has sold 700K+ ChatGPT licenses to ~35 US public universities for students and faculty, who used it 14M+ times in September, beating Copilot (Bloomberg) https://x.com/Techmeme/status/2001633781388648559
We are hiring a Head of Preparedness. This is a critical role at an important time; models are improving quickly and are now capable of many great things, but they are also starting to present some real challenges. The potential impact of models on mental health was something we”” / X https://x.com/sama/status/2004939524216910323?s=20
computer use agents will be a major story in 2026 they allow AI companies to capture a lot of white collar work https://x.com/scaling01/status/2005641253682098196
Graphite is joining Cursor · Cursor https://cursor.com/blog/graphite
We Let Anthropic’s Claude AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars. – WSJ https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-claude-ai-vending-machine-agent-b7e84e34
🎉 Big news: The official vLLM website is LIVE! https://x.com/vllm_project/status/2005461211656155153
Kind of funny how AI “wrapper” was rebranded to “harness”, and went from a negative connotation to a positive one.”” / X https://x.com/zachtratar/status/2005783035665359090
Cursor continues acquisition spree with Graphite deal | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/19/cursor-continues-acquisition-spree-with-graphite-deal/
I wrote about how the jagged abilities of AI lead to bottlenecks in what AI can do… … but those bottlenecks focus the efforts of AI labs leading to breakthroughs that unlock new areas of work, like how Nano Banana Pro unexpectedly makes good PowerPoint. https://x.com/emollick/status/2002435094276157674
Nano Banana Pro is so important not because it is a really good image generator, but because a really good image generator unexpectedly unlocks a lot of new AI abilities, like the fact that AI can now research & generate compelling slides. On bottlenecks: https://x.com/emollick/status/2003121163506229656
Excited to announce that @ManusAI has joined Meta to help us build amazing AI products! The Manus team in Singapore are world class at exploring the capability overhang of today’s models to scaffold powerful agents. Looking forward to working with you, @Red_Xiao_!”” / X https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/2005766469771223106
Meta acquired Manus 👀”” / X https://x.com/scaling01/status/2005768491740360722
18 months ago, I decided to join with @Red_Xiao_ and @peakji on my sofa. No one knew where it would lead. We just kept building, pivoting, and shipping–again and again–until now. Grateful to our team and every user who believed early. Day 1 isn’t over. We’ll keep shipping. https://x.com/hidecloud/status/2005766533910602183
The ChatGPT apps are just hard to figure out in a way that feels like the previous GPT Store, some work exactly as you might hope (the Canva integration) and some feels remarkably non-magical (the Apple Music integration can’t access my playlists despite linking my Apple account) https://x.com/emollick/status/2002580968071213455
Elon Musk: “”AI and robots will replace all jobs. Working will be optional.”” Bill Gates: “”Humans won’t be needed for most things.”” I have a simple question. Without jobs and income, how will people feed their families, get health care, or pay the rent? https://x.com/BernieSanders/status/2005718422840303766
The definition of robotic labor is a moving target. As machines master more complex cognitive and physical tasks, the threshold for what we consider ‘robotic’ will continue to shift.”” / X https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2003840335072678187
Fantastic piece by @muradhem on the AI talent wars @the_logic . My 2c is talented people have many options. In the end, what matters to people who drive innovation is finding like minded people who are pushing what is possible. Our approach at @adaptionlabs is very simple. https://x.com/sarahookr/status/2003581788850127276
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